India, Sept. 25 -- In the meticulous world of public finance, data points often murmur when they should speak. But occasionally, a statistic arrives with the force of a thunderclap. The Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) recent decadal study delivered precisely such a moment. Among the sixteen states that recorded a revenue surplus in FY 2022-23, one entity did not merely participate - it dominated. Uttar Pradesh, with a surplus exceeding '1.50 lakh crore, left other states far behind and stood in a league of its own - a fiscal triumph that demands not just notice, but a profound reassessment of the state's economic trajectory. For decades, Uttar Pradesh was the starkest embodiment of the "Bimaru" syndrome - a term evoking images of ...