Telangana Statehood Day

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• Telangana Formation Day is observed every year on June 2.

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• Telangana was carved out of erstwhile unified Andhra Pradesh on June 2, 2014.
  • Telangana was created as the 29th state with Hyderabad as its capital.
• The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act (2014) bifurcated Andhra Pradesh into two separate states.
• The Andhra State Act (1953) formed the first linguistic state of India, known as the state of Andhra, by taking out the Telugu speaking areas from the State of Madras (now Tamil Nadu).

Formation of states in India

• Article 3 of the Indian Constitution provides for the creation of a new state through a bill tabled in Parliament on the President’s recommendation after consultations with the legislatures of the affected states.
• Article 3 assigns to Parliament the power to enact legislation for the formation of new States. Parliament may create new States in a number of ways, namely by:
  • separating territory from any State, 
  • uniting two or more States, 
  • uniting parts of States and 
  • uniting any territory to a part of any State. 
• Parliament’s power under Article 3 extends to increasing or diminishing the area of any State and altering the boundaries or name of any State. 
• To checks constrain, Parliament’s power to enact legislation for the formation of new States. Firstly, a bill calling for formation of new States may be introduced in either House of Parliament only on the recommendation of the President. Secondly, such a bill must be referred by the President to the concerned State Legislature for expressing its views to Parliament if it contains provisions which affect the areas, boundaries or name of that State. 

Source: IE + PIB