Quinacrine Sterilisation Trials-A Scientific Scandal

the local bodies within their jurisdiction. The context had to be much broader, namely, from the centre to the states and from the state to their local bodies. Whenever he wrote or spoke on the subject of decentralisation in general or in the particular context of planning, EMS made it very clear that he was strongly opposed to the way the centre had, since independence, taken on functions and powers that should belong to the states.