The States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) was a body constituted by the Central Government of India in 1953 to recommend the reorganization of state boundaries along the linguistic lines. In 1955, after nearly 2 years of study, the Commission recommended that India's state boundaries should be reorganized to correspond more closely to the country's linguistic divisions, and proposed 16 states and 3 union territories.
States Reorganisation Commission consisted of Fazal Ali, Kavalam Madhava Panikkar and H.N. Kunzru. Some of its recommendations were implemented in the States Reorganisation Act of 1956.
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