Union Funds 2026-27 | Even on ballot eve, Funds has disenchanted Tamil Nadu: CM Stalin

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday (February 1, 2026) stated that the Union Funds had completely defeated Tamil Nadu’s expectations that the BJP-led Union authorities would pay attention to the State’s necessities and take heed to its calls for, particularly because it was an election yr.

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“The Funds is completely disappointing. It has ignored the State’s pursuits, and there are not any schemes for the welfare of the poor, ladies, farmers, and people on the margins of society,” he stated in a press release.

Recalling Tamil Nadu’s grievance that developed States weren’t being given their due share of tax income, Mr. Stalin stated that the demand of many States, together with Tamil Nadu, to extend the States’ share of tax income from 41% to 50% had not been heeded.

Mr. Stalin stated the most important disappointment was the Prime Minister’s Internship Scheme. “A complete of ₹10,831 crore was introduced within the earlier Funds. However within the revised estimates for 2025-26, the allocation is simply ₹526 crore. This reveals that the scheme has failed,” he stated.

Mr. Stalin identified that regardless that the sixteenth Finance Fee had sought to recognise States’ contribution to the Indian economic system, it seems that Tamil Nadu’s share of tax income was more likely to proceed at 4.097% for the following 5 years regardless of its substantial contribution. “This anomaly has not been corrected by the sixteenth Finance Fee,” he stated.

He stated it was extremely condemnable that Tamil Nadu’s share of tax income had been decreased by ₹1,200 crore, particularly at a time when GST reforms had affected the State’s tax income.

“After we have been eagerly ready for the allocation of funds for schemes for Tamil Nadu, there are not any new schemes both. This clearly reveals the Union authorities’s step-motherly angle in the direction of Tamil Nadu,” he stated.

The Chief Minister stated that the Funds had didn’t allocate ₹3,548 crore for training since Tamil Nadu had refused to implement the three-language system, and that there was no announcement relating to the allocation of ₹3,112 crore for the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), regardless that Tamil Nadu had applied the scheme successfully.

‘Ignored State’s calls for’

Tamil Nadu’s Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu stated the Funds had ignored the State’s real calls for and didn’t allocate funds for improvement schemes, employment era, training, well being, and industrial funding.

“There isn’t any due allocation for Tamil Nadu, which is enjoying an necessary function for the expansion of the nation. It’s actually disappointing,” he added.