" Now, like all other States, Sikkim, too, gets an annual grant from the Central Government. And the Sikkimese can compete for admission to IIMs/IITs, can win a JRF/SRF (scholarship worth Rs.3,000 per mensem--with no Bonds attached), and can also join IAS/IFS/IPS etc." If the purpose of the above example is to infeer that Sikkim has benefited from joining India, then that might be a fair case to make. But if you are implying through that example that Nepal might want to do the same, I think you are missing the forest for the trees. First of all, Nepalese can compete under a foreign quota for some of those admissions already. Besides, I don't think a nation of 30 million people is going to hand over the country to India just because they can now be part of full competition for what is it like 50 seats at AIIMs annually? On the contrary, a Nepali might have a better chance competing in the much smaller foreign quota pool than the huge general pool that encompasses hundreds of thousands of test takers. I hope that is not what you were trying to say because it is a rather absurd argument.