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the State · Part 3

Chapter 15: 73 · POLITICAL SCIENCE

Preservation and Strengthening of the Unity and Security of the Nation To promote deeper nationalism, unilingual States must realise that a singular language will instill particularistic empathy, which should be countered with more positive and pluralistic measures to ensure deeper content to national feeling. . Planning and promotion of the welfare of the people in each state as well as of the Nation as a whole to meet the communicational, educational, and cultural needs of various linguistic communities, who either live in unilingual or multilingual communities of a particular administrative unit. Eventually, the Commission suggested the reorganisation of the county into sixteen States and three Union Territories.

The Indian government accepted the report, though it made few modifications and constituted the State Reorganisation Act in . After the Act was passed by the Parliament, and the Indian government implemented it leading to the creation of States and Union Territories came into existence in 1st November . The States were Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Bombay, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Madras, Mysore, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The six union territories were Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands, Manipur and Tripura.

Emergence of More States The reorganisation of States continued even after , and not particularly based on vernacular language, after careful consideration by the Parliament. Some of the States that emerged after include:  Bombay Reorganisation Act, : Formation of Gujarat  State of Nagaland Act, : State of Nagaland, separate from Assam  Punjab Reorganisation Act, : Formation of Haryana  New State of Himachal Pradesh Act,  North Eastern Reorganisation act, : Formation of Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Union ( territories of Arunachal Pradesh & Mizoram  New State of Sikkim Act in  State of Arunachal Pradesh Act, State of Mizoram act : Formation of the States of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh  State of Goa Act in  Reorganisation Act, : Formation of Chhattisgarh  Reorganisation Act, : Formation of Uttarakhand 

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