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The Vidarbha movement includes political activities organised by various individuals, organizations and political parties, for creation of a separate state of Vidarbha, within the republic of India, with Nagpur as the capital. The proposed state corresponds to the eastern 11 districts of the state of Maharashtra. It makes up for 31% of area and ...
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of bicameral state legislature of the Maharashtra state in India.Maharashtra came into existence on 1 May 1960. The number of constituencies of the first Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Maharashtra state legislature in 1960 was 264. 33 constituencies were reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled ...
Vidarbha has a total population of 23,003,179 according to the 2011 India census. [21] The region occupies 31.6% of the total area and is home to 21.3% of the total population of Maharashtra. [ 22 ] According to the 2011 census, Hinduism was the principal religion in the state at 76.91% of the total population, while Buddhists constituted 13.08 ...
But even after the recommendation of SRC headed by Fazal Ali, Vidarbha was made part of bilingual Bombay State in 1956 and Nagpur city lost the capital status. Nagpur thus became the only city in independent India to lose state capital status, after being a capital of India's biggest state (by area) for more than 100 years.
Aspirant states and union territories of India. The constitutional power to create new states and union territories in India is solely reserved with the Parliament of India, which can do so by announcing new states/union territories, separating territory from an existing state or merging two or more states/union territories or parts of them. [1]
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The States Reorganisation Commission of India (SRC) constituted by the Central Government of India in December 1953 to recommend the reorganization of state boundaries. [1] In September 1955, after two years of study, the Commission, comprising Justice Fazal Ali , K. M. Panikkar and H. N. Kunzru , submitted its report.
Vidarbha is an easternmost region of Indian state of Maharashtra comprising Nagpur Division and Amravati Division. It occupies 31.6% of total area and holds 21.3% of total population of Maharashtra. Nagpur is the largest city of Vidarbha as well as in central India followed by Amravati. A total of 4 cities of Vidarbha region have municipal ...