Dakshin Dialogues 2024: PTR calls for regional cooperation that transcends politics

Tamil Nadu’s Minister of Information Technology and Digital Services Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan called for increased dialogues between states, especially those in the south, for more regional cooperation that transcends politics.

Speaking at South First’s Dakshin Dialogues-2024, the minister urged for creating a forum to hold interstate dialogues. “We need a lot more state-to-state dialogue, especially in the South, where our outcomes in education, development, and technology can serve as a model for the rest of the country,” he said in Hyderabad on Saturday, 5 October.

The minister, however, said there was no forum for holding such dialogues. “The GST Council, intended for fiscal matters, ends up discussing the relationship between the Center and states, which isn’t its purpose,” he pointed out.