https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=70499 The chief minister contends the Union Budget provided "zero" to Tamil Nadu and sets out specific fiscal and project demands - education funding, new railway projects, completion of Madurai AIIMS, a 50% tax share, and NEET exemption - framing the Budget failure as a denial of actionable state allocations. He advances a federalism critique that centralisation undermines state autonomy and warns against language-policy imposition under the three-language framework. He further argues NEET and similar centralised exam regimes threaten reservation-based social justice and seeks exemptions to preserve equitable educational access. en-us Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:16:04 +0530 Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:16:04 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=70499 The chief minister contends the Union Budget provided "zero" to Tamil Nadu and sets out specific fiscal and project demands - education funding, new railway projects, completion of Madurai AIIMS, a 50% tax share, and NEET exemption - framing the Budget failure as a denial of actionable state allocations. He advances a federalism critique that centralisation undermines state autonomy and warns against language-policy imposition under the three-language framework. He further argues NEET and similar centralised exam regimes threaten reservation-based social justice and seeks exemptions to preserve equitable educational access. News - Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:16:04 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=70499