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Other linguistic communities too started demanding their own separate states. As
a result, State Re-organization Commission was set up. It submitted its report
in 1956.
Recommendations of SRC:
-It recommended redrawing of district and provincial boundaries to form compact
provinces of Assamese, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada & Telugu speake
rs.
1960:
Bombay was divided into Marathi speaking and Gujarati speaking areas.
1966:
Punjab was divided into Punjab & Haryana
Planning for development:
Lifting India and Indians out of poverty, and building a modern technical and in
dustrial base were among the major objectives of the new nation.
1950:
Planning Commission was set up to help design & execute suitable policies for ec
onomic development.
A Mixed economy Model
was to be followed wherein State & private sector would play imp
ortant & complimentary roles in increasing production & generating jobs.
What were these roles?
-Which industries to be initiated by State & which by the centre.
-achieving balance between different regions & States.
These were to be defined by Planning commission.
1956:
2nd 5 year plan was formulated. Focus was on,
1). Heavy industries such as Steel
2). Building of Dams
Sectors to be under control of State
The focus in the 2nd 5 year plan was on Heavy industries and on the effort at St
ate regulation of economy. This approach was to continue for coming few decades.
Critics of this approach felt there was an,
-inadequate emphasis on Agriculture
-Neglect of primary education
-Environmental implications of economic policies ignored
A case for formation of states on Linguistic Basis
The roots of Srilankan internal turmoil is the imposition of Sinhala as the offi
cial language of country & ignoring the subsequent warning & protest from Tamil
minority areas of the North.
On the other hand India has survived such internal conflict as it did not impose
Hindi on the Southern States and all the languages have been allowed to flouris
h. Contrary to the beliefs held by Nehru and Patel the formation of States on th
e linguistic basis have not threatened the unity of India but have deepened this
unity.
Once the fear of one s language being suppressed has gone, the different linguistic
groups have been content to live as part of the larger nation called India.