patna all political parties business and trade bodies and academic institutions will join hands to submit a memorandum to the 14th finance commission coming here on a threeday visit beginning january 6 they will jointly demand restoration of income distance criteria and devolution of resources to the states the income distance criteria which links grants with the level of per capita income lower the income higher the grant had been abandoned by the 13th finance commission the joint memorandum will be submitted on january 7 to the full commission headed by former rbi governor y v reddy the government memorandum will be handed over to him on january 6 according to reliable sourcesasian development research institute adri which is coordinating with various political parties and academic and professional bodies will hold a meeting on friday to highlight important issues of the memorandum on which all the stakeholders have agreed the meeting is expected to be attended by senior minister vijay kumar choudhary bjp leader vinod narayan jha abdul bari siddiqui of the rjd sadanand singh of the congress v k thakur of the cpm and rajendra singh of the cpi apart from the representatives of bsp suci as well as cii bcci bia phdcci cimp cub and others the adri had organized a meeting in november last to seek views of the political parties and others adri membersecretary shaibal gupta said this will be the third time that a joint memorandum will be submitted to the finance commission the commission constituted every five years to recommend transfer of funds to states too had appreciated the bihar move he added the joint memorandum will contain broadly five chapters dealing with provision of transfer of taxes as well as grantsinaid through the finance commission and will highlight the backwardness and disadvantages of bihar and also make suggestions for criteria fixation said gupta