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INDIAN POLITY & GOVERNANCE

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Union & Its Territory
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The Term Union of States implies that India is a unitary system ofgovernment and it is federal only in a secondary sense.


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Dr. Ambedkar use the expression UNION instead of theexpression Federation because of two reasons :

Though the country and the people may be divided into differentStates for convenience of administration, the country is one integralwhole, its people are single people living under a single imperium

derived from a single source. The expression- India is a Union of States was chosen as India was

already a Union at the time of the Constituent Assembly debates.


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Parliament may by law can:a) Form a new State by separation of territory from any State or

by uniting two or more States or parts of States or by unitingany territory to a Part of any State;

b) Increase the area of any State;

c) Diminish the area of any State;d) Alter the boundaries of any State;e) Alter the name of any State;


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A federation is one consisting of an indestructibleUnion of indestructible States as in the USA

What is Federation ?


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Even before Independence, Government was exploring the appropriate

basis for states reorganization. Dhar Commission was set up by the President of the Indian Constituent

Assembly in 1948 to consider the question of reorganization of states inIndia.

The Commission favoured reorganization on the basis of administrative

efficacy and not language. The Indian National Congress at its Jaipur Session (1948) set up a high

level committee called Linguistic Provinces Committee - consisting ofJawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and Pattabhi Sitararniah toconsider the Dhar Commissions recommendations. In its report (J.V.P.

Report) the committee counseled utmost caution in proceeding with theproposal for the linguistic reorganization of states.

CREATING NEW STATES


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Jawahar Lal Nehru subsequently appointed the StatesReorganisation Commission (1953) that included Fazl Ali,

KM Panikkar and HN Kunzru.



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The four criteria laid down by the States Reorganization

Commission (SRC) for accepting the demand by a region forthe formation of a State are: Creation of new States should strengthen and preserve national

unity.

States are to be formed on the basis of linguistic and culturalunity. Financial, administrative and economic viability should govern

the formation of new states. It should aid the process of implementation of five years plans.

This was the beginning of states reorganization in India on alinguistic basis.



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Three new states were created in 2000 not onthe basis of language but primarily for goodgovernance.
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Regionalism refers to a group of people in a region or a

state coming together to demand and agitate for morepowers of autonomy or a separate state.

What is Regionalism ?



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