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New theoretical insight on federalism issue in Burma Posted: 11 May 2016 05:28 AM PDT The Indian model of aysemmetrical federalism could be suitable for Burma. But first, the Bamar needs to accept that it is also equally an ethnic group and not a colonial master, together with the other ethnic nationalities. The question of 14 States and Divisions/Regions versus 8 States composition has to be cleared first, followed by how all the people residing within the boundry of Burma would like to decentralize or agreed on the type of devolution. Lately, Robert H Taylor made an interesting theoretical approach, which could help solve the federalism issue in Burma. He wrote: "Up to now, the consideration of federalism and decentralization has always been within the confines of the bitter debates about federalism and ethnicity. Those problems could be addressed at the same time as dismantling the General Administration Department's grip from the centre on local government by decentralizing not to the states and regions, but to the country's seventy-four districts. An alternative would be to go one layer down the administrative hierarchy and decentralize to the 412 townships and sub-townships, but that would be an administrative nightmare. Decentralizing to seventy-four districts would be a challenge but not impossible."

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