Centre planning to give states flexibility to compete for Centrally Sponsored Schemes: Anoop Singh SECTIONS Share Synopsis The Centre is planning to give states the flexibility to compete for better Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) within an overall entitlement through its ongoing process of review of various CSS, according to Anoop Singh, member of the 15th Finance Commission. Agencies The Centre is planning to give states the flexibility to compete for better Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) within an overall entitlement through its ongoing process of review of various CSS, according to Anoop Singh, member of the 15th Finance Commission. Singh was responding to a suggestion from Montek Singh Alhuwalia, former deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, that the NITI Aayog should determine the states’ overall entitlement of funds under the CSS and allow the states to choose which schemes they want to utilise based on their needs.