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The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines. [1]Although additional changes to India's state boundaries have been made since 1956, the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 remains the most extensive change in state boundaries after the independence of India.
Revoking Executive Order No. 196, issued on August 1, 1956, annexing to the municipality of Borja, province of Bohol, certain barrios of the municipality of Carmen, same province October 12, 1956 206 Creating a joint committee for Philippine participation in the Brussels International Exposition of 1958 October 13, 1956 207
This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties ...
Reorganization of the government or any of its branches, departments and instrumentalities, excluding government-owned or controlled corporations Creation, abolition or change of the principal functions or nature of any government department, agency, commission or board
The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 implemented some of the recommendations of the SRC. In addition to the three Union Territories (UTs) proposed by the SRC, it also established Laccadive, Minicoy & Amindivi Islands, Himachal Pradesh and Tripura as UTs. It established a total of 14 states in addition to these UTs.
It came into effect on November 1st, 1956 along with the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. The Seventh Amendment did away with the four-fold classification of States that existed since 1950 and introduced the concept of States and Union Territories [2]. Constitutionally, the Princely States were not part of British India nor were their ...
The strength of the Madras Legislative Assembly was increased to 205 in accordance with the new Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order 1956, made by the Delimitation Commission of India under the provisions of the State Reorganisation Act, 1956. [14] The 1957 elections were conducted for these 205 seats.
Zonal Councils are advisory councils and are made up of the states and union territories of India that have been grouped into five zones to foster cooperation among them. These were set up by Part-III of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956.