Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh

India is the world's second most populous country after the People's
Republic of China. At present India is having 29 states and 6 union territories
with different cultures, religions and languages. After independence many of
the Indian states has been bifurcated into individual states by State
Reorganization law of Indian Government.
The Indian states are divided by means of The States Reorganization
Act, 1956 of Indian government. The formation of a new state contains
different steps. They are:
The process for the formation of a new state is:

Step 1: Presidential reference is sent to state Assembly

Step 2: After Presidential reference, a resolution is tabled and passed to state
Assembly
Step 3: State Assembly has to pass a Bill creating the new state.
Step 4: A separate Bill has to be ratified by Parliament
The list of all bifurcations since 1947 in India is:

1947 - Provinces and around 550 princely states were merged with

existing provinces
1953 - Andhra Pradesh was carved out of Madras. States' reorganization

commission was formed

1953 - Northeast Frontier Agency was formed
1956 - 14 states and 6 UTs were created
1960 - Bombay state split into Maharashtra and Gujarat
1963 - Nagaland carved out of Assam
1966 - Haryana and Himachal Pradesh carved out of Punjab state
1972 - Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura were formed
1975 - Sikkim became part of Indian union

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1987 - Goa and Arunachal Pradesh became states (Earlier these were

UTs)
2000

Chhattisgarh (From Madhya Pradesh) were formed

2014 Andhra Pradesh state is bifurcated into two states namely

Uttaranchal

(From

UP),

Jharkhand

(From

Bihar)

and

Residual Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh:
Andhra State was created in 1953 October 1, from the Telugu speaking
districts of Madras state. The state was formed with two distinct regions
namely Rayalaseema and Coastal-Andhra commonly known as Seemandhra.
On November 1, 1956, the Telangana regions of Hyderabad state was
merged with the newly formed Andhra state to form the united TeluguSpeaking state Andhra Pradesh.
After the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 by the joining of
Hyderabad districts, a new movement was started in 1969. Some students
protested "implementation of the safe guards from Andhra Pradesh" while some
protested for a "Separate Telangana". This movement was suppressed later.
In 1997, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) passed a
resolution seeking a separate Telangana.
In 2000, Congress party MLAs from the Telangana region who supported
a separate Telangana state formed the Telangana Congress Legislators Forum
and submitted momorandum to their president Sonia Gandhi requesting the
support the Telangana state.

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A new party called Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), led by Kalvakuntla
Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), was formed in April 2001 with the single-point
agenda of creating a separate Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital.
In the 2009 elections TRS managed to win only 10 assembly seats out of
the 45 it contested and only 2 MP seats. Some media analysts thought
Telangana sentiment faded.
After the death of Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y.S.R in 2009
September resulted in political vacuum in the state. At this time TRS
president K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) raised his pitch for the separate state.
On 29 November 2009, he started a fast-unto-death, demanding that the
Congress

party

organizations,

introduce

employee

unions,

December

2009,

Telangana
and

bill

various

in

Parliament. Student

organizations

joined

the

movement.
On

Union

Minister

of

Home

Affairs P.

Chidambaram announced that the Indian government is going to start the

process of forming a separate Telangana state.
This

announcement

results

in

protests

across

both

Andhra

and Rayalseema. Students, workers, lawyers & various organizations in the

regions launched the Samaikyandhra Movement demanding that the state be
kept united.
With 5 years of Telangana movement in 2014, on 20th February the
Telangana bill is passed in rajya sabha with support of BJP.

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On 4 March 2014 the Government of India declares 2 June 2014 the
Telangana Formation Day. Telangana is the 29th state of the Union of India
with Hyderabad as its capital. Both states will share the capital for 10 years
until Seemandhra can establish its own.
Andhra

Pradesh

Reorganization

Act,

2014 is

an Act

of

Indian

Parliament declaring the bifurcation of the Andhra Pradesh state into two
states, Telangana and the residuary Andhra Pradesh. The Act consists of all
aspects of division of assets and liabilities, and finalizes the boundaries of the
proposed new states and the status of Hyderabad.

Advantages and Disadvantages:

The state of Andhra Pradesh had 23 districts of which 10 go to Telangana and
13 to Seemandhra. The advantages and disadvantages are for both the states
are possible. As the concern of Andhra the following are listed:
Advantages:
Seemandhra is larger in area and has a higher population with a share of
around 60 percent.
The literacy rate is greater compared to Telangana.

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The state has the second longest coastline of 972 km (604 mi) among all
the states of India
Disadvantages:
Seemandhra on the other hand will start from a disadvantage of finding
a capital and then has to build.
This has to be attractive to attract industry and investment.
Need for new educational institutions and gain of Economy

Conclusion:
I am concluding this by wishing the both states a good luck and expecting
equal development making the Telugu people to feel proud where ever they are
in the world.
Thank you.

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