The propositions in the 'Health Security Se National Security Cess' Bill, 2025 need scrutiny due to several issues: 👉 The cess is outside the divisible pool. States that run almost the entire public health machinery will receive nothing. 👉 The bill merges two important objectives, health and national security, into a single cess. This dilutes clarity, increases the risk of diversion and makes auditing across two priority sectors very difficult. 👉 Instead of strengthening cooperative federalis