• R. Kajendran

Abstract: The constitution of India has classified the legislative, executive and financial powers between the centre and the states, which gives the constitution a civic character whereas judiciary is incorporated in a categorised structure. The centre-state relations are distributed into three parts, such as (A) Legislative Relations (B) Administrative Relations (C) Financial Relations. Article 245 to 255 of the constitution elucidates the legislative relations between them. While, Article 256 to 263 describe the administrative relations and Article 268 to 293 explained about financial relations between centre and state government. Several committees and commissions constituted for constitutional amendments for strengthening the centre state relations through decentralized the powers to state government. 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments decentralized the power to state through local governance. This present paper attempts to find out the outlines of Issues and Challenges of Centre-State relations in India through descriptive research methods along with collected secondary sources from books, journals, magazines, government gazette reports and various commissions and committees report and etc.

Centre-State relations, Constitutional Amendments, Decentralized, Legislatures.

"CENTRE-STATE RELATIONS IN INDIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.214-216, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I57.pdf

"CENTRE-STATE RELATIONS IN INDIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp214-216, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I57.pdf