FAZL ALI COMMISSION. #Unionanditsterritories The creation | UPSC POLITY NOTES
FAZL ALI COMMISSION.
#Unionanditsterritories
The creation of Andhra state intensified the demand from other regions for creation of states on linguistic basis.
This forced the Government of India to appoint (in December, 1953) a three- member States Reorganisation Commission under the chairmanship of Fazl Ali to re-examine the whole question.
Its other two members were K.M. Panikkar and H.N. Kunzru. It submitted its report in September 1955 and broadly accepted language as the basis of reorganisation of states. But, it rejected the theory of ‘one language-one state’.
Its view was that the unity of India should be regarded as the primary consideration in any redrawing of the country’s political units.
