| Tamil Nadu is a state that has ensured a simultaneous improvement in growth and human
development. Innovative welfare interventions combined with economic dynamism have been
a key feature of the state’s development. In the context of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
coming to power on the back of a slew of promises on welfare and development, and the
ongoing pandemic, the trajectory of growth and resource mobilisation efforts by the state is
examined. The analysis points to an emerging disjuncture between growth and tax efforts of
the state as well as a decline in central transfers. | |