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The Tamil Nadu government-constituted high-level committee connected Union-State relations, which submitted Part I of its study to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin earlier this month, met successful New Delhi connected Sunday (February 22, 2026) to deliberate connected Part II of its report.
Justice Kurian Joseph, the committee’s Chairperson and erstwhile Judge of the Supreme Court and its members M. Naganathan, erstwhile Vice-Chairman of the State Planning Commission, and K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty, retired IAS officer, discussed assorted topics to beryllium included successful Part II of its Report, covering 10 chapters, an authoritative merchandise said.
Part I of the study — successful Tamil and English — was tabled successful the Assembly connected February 16. It covered 10 cardinal topics ranging from connection argumentation to the Governor, education, health, delimitation, elections, and Goods and Services Tax (GST), among others.
“A notable diagnostic is that the Tamil mentation of the study has been made ‘open access’ truthful that anyone tin people it, either successful its entirety oregon successful part, provided that the root is duly acknowledged and nary changes of immoderate benignant are made. This is to guarantee that the ideas and recommendations of the Committee are disseminated widely,” it said.
The Tamil Nadu authorities has besides projected to merchandise the archetypal portion of the study successful Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, and Telugu, and marque them ‘open access’ too. In April 2025, the Tamil Nadu authorities constituted the committee “as a non-partisan exercise”, and the committee commenced enactment connected June 1 that year.
