An analysis of the data from the Union and state finances reveal that Jammu and Kashmir has received 10% of all Central grants given to states between 2000 and 2016, reported The Hindu. However, the state has only 1% of the country’s population.

Uttar Pradesh, on the other hand, accounts for around 13% of the country’s population but received only 8.2% of Central aid in the same period. Effectively, this means Jammu and Kashmir got Rs 91,300 per person over the past 16 years while UP only received Rs 4,300 per person.

According to The Hindu, Jammu and Kashmir received a disproportionate amount of Central funds even among the special category states: more than a quarter – Rs 1.14 lakh crore – of the Central funds granted to the 11 states that fall under this bracket.

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National Institute of Public Finance and Policy professor Tapas Sen said Jammu and Kashmir got more money because of the persistent violence in the state and because it shares borders with Pakistan. Other experts told English Daily that this could be an incentive to ensure that the state remains with India.

In 2015, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India had reprimanded the state government for suspected financial irregularities. “There were persistent errors in budgeting, savings, excess expenditure and expenditure without provision,” said the CAG report. According to the CAG, as many as 32,625 audit observations containing 8,518 inspection reports pertaining to the period from 1998 to 2014 were outstanding as of March 31, 2014.