New Delhi, Jun 19 : The Commission set up to take a fresh look at Centre-State relations was today given a nine-month extension up to March 31 next year.
This was decided at a meeting of the Union Cabinet, Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters here after the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The Commission, headed by Justice M M Punchhi, was set up in 2007 to look into new issues of Centre-State relations in view of the sea changes that have taken place in the polity and economy since the Sarkaria Commission had last looked into the matter.
The Punchhi panel, which was asked to submit its report within two years, was given the task to review the working of the existing arrangements between the Centre and the states as per the Constitution and study various pronouncements of the courts with regard to powers, functions and responsibilities in all spheres. Ze
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