Judgment

MADON, J.:- On January 26, 1950, when the Constitution of India came into force, under Art. 1 read with the First Schedule to the Constitution. India became a Union of States consisting of nine Part A States, nine Part B States and ten Part C States. Under Art. 3, Parliament has the power by law to form a new State by separation of territory from any State or by uniting two or more States or parts of States or by uniting any territory to a part of any State; increase the area of any State, diminish the area of any State; alter the boundaries of any State; or alter the name of any State. By reason of repeated reorganizations of States, the Union of India today consists of twenty-two States and nine Union territories and it is difficult to visualize when this process of fragmentation of India will end and the practice of sacrificing the sense of oneness in being an Indian an the altar of parochial and linguistic chauvinism will stop. These reorganizations have resulted in benefit to some, detriment to others and bewilderment to many. Each reorganization has brought in its wake a host of problems mostly relating to those in services of the States, many of them still unsolved.

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