
‘Centre is not paying funds owed to States’
The Hindu
Govt. working to pay off T.N.’s debt: CM
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday expressed hope that the State Government’s finances will become better soon while blaming the Union Government for not giving the State’s share of Goods and Services Tax or flood relief funds fully.
Speaking at the 14th State-level conference of the Tamil Nadu Government Employees’ Association, the Chief Minister said the State was in debt to the tune of ₹5 lakh crore. “The financial situation of the State needs to be fixed. In the last 10 years, a government functioned that destroyed and ransacked the finances of the State. We have started the process of reviving Tamil Nadu from the wrongs of the previous few years,” he said.
Mr. Stalin said without government employees there was no government. He further said he was making a change to the slogan ‘do or die’ to ‘do and die’, meaning he was working with a vision that he needed to complete his work fully and only then die.