The budget analysis of the State in the last few years has clearly pointed to consistent under spending of the budget.
John Samuel
KOZHIKODE: “The economy and the environment of Kerala, which are interconnected, are in serious danger,” says John Samuel, President of the Initiative of Sustainable Development and Governance (ISDG).
In an interview to DC, John Samuel also the head of the Global Programmes on Democratic Governance Assessments at the Bureau of Development Police at the UNDP Headquarters, New York, highlighted the perspective of sustainable development in Kerala.
According to John Samuel, Kerala could see the Chennai-like flood tragedy unfolding because of the imbalance of the State’s economy and the huge destruction of the environment.
“The major question of whether the Kerala economy is poised for significant changes in the years to come, is what we have been asking for a long time seeing the financial liabilities of the State”, he pointed out.
The debated development model which our State has been prided itself on for a long time does not seem to offer anything by way of an explanation.
The budget analysis of the State in the last few years has clearly pointed to consistent under spending of the budget. More than half of the utilized budgets were invested in the service sector rather than on the agriculture, he said.
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