The correct answer is Centre-State relations. Explanation & Key Takeaways: Sarkaria Commission: • Ministry of Home Affairs on 9 June 1983, constituted a Commission named Sarkaria Commission, under the Chairmanship of Justice R.S. Sarkaria with Shri B. Sivaraman and Dr. S.R. Sen as its members. • The Commission has examined and reviewed the working of the existing arrangements between the Union and States regarding powers, functions, and responsibilities in all spheres and recommends such changes or other measures as may be appropriate. • The main recommendations of the Commission with regard to the Inter-State Council and its Secretariat are council should be charged with duties in broad terms embracing the entire gamut of clauses (b) and (c) of Article 263. • The Council should not be vested with powers of inquiring into and advising upon disputes between the States. • The Commission also recommended that without an independent permanent secretariat, the Council would not be able to establish its credibility. • Considering the nature of meetings and the level of participants, the Council’s Secretariat should be suitably staffed and modelled on the Union Cabinet Secretariat. • The Commission recommended that coordination of policies and implementation in a dual polity especially given large areas of common interest and shared action requires a sustained process of contact, consultation, and interaction, for which a proper forum is necessary. • The Commission observed that the executive powers of the Union and States overlap in many areas and as such division of matters in the Union List and State List is not absolute. Several entries overlap. • States are dependent on the Union for financial resources and in many administrative matters. • The commission submitted its report to the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1988.