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Why did the Central Government have to “Reorganize the states”?ORGive reason: The Central Government had to “Reorganize the states”. |
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Answer» After independence the princely states were merged into the Indian Union. We had adopted the federal system of government. Hence, there arose a question of forming and reorganizing states as the major components of the Union of India. The constitution was implemented on 26th January, 1950. At that time India emerged as a Union with four categories of states, namely, A, B, C and D in India. The Telugu speaking community of Madras (group – A state) launched a strong protest for their own separate state. The government accepted their demand. So on 1st October, 1953, Andhra Pradesh was formed as a new state on linguistic basis. In December 1953, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appointed the ‘States Reorganization Committee’ to reorganize all Indian states. This was headed by Fazal Ali, retired chief justice of the Supreme Court. The bill regarding reorganization of states was implemented from 1st November, 1956. |
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