A Bill seeking to create a new State or alter boundaries of
existing States can be introduced in either House of the Parliament, only on
the recommendation of the President.
President refers the State Reorganization Bill to the State
Legislature concerned for its opinion, fixing a time limit.
Parliament is not bound to accept or act upon the views of
the State Legislature on a state Reorganization Bill. The state Reorganization
Bill requires simple majority in both houses of the Parliament.
It is not necessary to obtain the views of legislatures of
Union territories before a bill affecting their boundaries or names is
introduced.
The States Reorganization Act, 1956 reorganized the
boundaries of different States to establish a new state of Kerala and merge the
former stats, of Madhya Bharat, pepsu, Saurashtra, Tracancore, Cochin, Ajmer,
Bhopal, Coorg, Kutch and Vindhya Pradesh in other adjoining States and thus 14
states and 6 Union Territories were established in India.
The Bombay Reorganization Act, 1960, divided the State of
Bombay to establish two states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
In 1962 Nagaland was created as a separate State.
In 1966, Punjab was divided into Punjab and Haryana.
Union Territory of Himachal Pradesh was made the State of
Himachal Pradesh by an Act of 1970.
States of Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya and Union Territories
Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh were established in 1971. Later Mizoram and
Arunachal Pradesh achieved statehood in 1986.
Sikkim was made part of India by 36th Amendment
of the Constitution.
In 1987 Goa was made a separate State of the Union.
Chhattisgrah came into existence on 1st November
2000.
Uttaranchal (now Uttarakhand) came into existence on 8th
November, 2000.
The state of Jharkhand, which was established on 15th
November 2000, is the newest (28th) State of India.
The Union Government (on 30 July, 2013) gave a go ahead to
create ‘Telangana’ (the proposed 29th State) bifurcating Andhra
Pradesh.
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