15th Finance Commission treating J&K like any other UT: N K Singh

How can you treat a UT to be anything other than a UT?, Singh said

The Fifteenth Finance Commission has treated Jammu & Kashmir like any other Union Territory, and at least for 2020-21, it will get funds out of the Centre’s share of the divisible tax pool, the Commission’s Chairman NK Singh (pictured) said on Monday.

This is a different stance from what the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act had sought from the Commission. The Centre, through the Act, had wanted the Union Territory to be given a special provision and provided with funds out of the divisible pool like any other state, while Ladakh was to be treated like any other UT and given