Indian Polity · Polity
Consider the following statements regarding the evolution of demographic criteria for the devolution of central taxes across the 14th and 15th Finance Commissions: Statement 1: The 14th Finance Commission utilised both 1971 and 2011 population metrics to determine the devolution of central taxes. Statement 2: The 15th Finance Commission completely abandoned the 1971 population metric for its 2021-26 recommendations. Statement 3: The 'Demographic Performance' criterion was assigned a weight of 12.5% by the 14th Finance Commission. Statement 4: The 15th Finance Commission assigned a weight of 15.0% to the 2011 population metric for the 2021-26 period. Which of the statements given above are correct?
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Statements 1, 2, and 4
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