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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.
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.
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.
PEPSU state in East Punjab. On 1 November 1956, PEPSU was merged mostly into Punjab State following the States Reorganisation Act. [1]A part of the former state of PEPSU, including the present day Jind district and the Narnaul tehsil in north Haryana as well as the Loharu tehsil, Charkhi Dadri district and Mahendragarh district in southwest Haryana, presently lie within the state of Haryana ...
Chief ministers of Mysore (following the state's reorganisation) [m] Portrait Name Constituency Term of office [36] Assembly S. Nijalingappa: Molakalmuru: 1 November 1956 16 May 1958 1 year, 197 days 1: Jamkhandi: 21 June 1962 28 May 1968 5 years, 342 days 3 4: B. D. Jatti: Jamkhandi: 16 May 1958 9 March 1962 3 years, 297 days 2: S. R. Kanthi ...
Andhra State (yellow), which merged with Hyderabad state (white) to form the State of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 Map of Southern India (1953–1956) before the States Reorganisation Act of 1956. To gain an independent state based on linguistic identity, and to protect the interests of the Telugu people of Madras State, Potti Sreeramulu fasted to ...
Bombay state was split into Gujarat and Maharashtra on 1 May 1960 by the Bombay Reorganisation Act. [10] Goa, Daman and Diu was established as a union territory, following the liberation of Goa from Portuguese in 1961. [7] In 1961, during Bengali Language Movement, protests erupted demanding a separate Barak state. [11]
Mysore State, colloquially Old Mysore, was a political territory within the Dominion of India and the subsequent Republic of India from 1947 until 1956. The state was formed by renaming the Kingdom of Mysore and Bangalore replaced Mysore as the state's capital. When Parliament passed the States Reorganisation Act in 1956. [1]