Question

Consider the following statements:
The creation of a new State in India from an existing State involves the consent of the ___________.
1. Supreme Court
2. legislature of the State concerned
3. President
4. Parliament
A) 1, 2 and 3
B) 2, 3 and 4
C) 1 and 4
D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Answer 1

Hint: India was split between British-administered provinces and ostensibly autonomous princely states that were overseen by the British government before independence. Some of these administrative units became part of the Dominion of Pakistan after India's partition, while the remaining states and provinces became the Dominion of India. The colonial form of government lasted until 1956 when the States Reorganisation Act dissolved provinces and princely states in favour of new states based on ethnicity and language.

Complete answer:
New states are formed in India according to the requirements of Articles 2, 3, and 4 of the Indian Constitution. Admission and creation of new states is the title of Article 2. Article 3 is titled: Formation of new states and changes to existing states' regions, borders, or names. Laws established under articles 2 and 3 to provide for the revision of the First and Fourth Schedules, as well as additional, incidental, and consequential concerns is the title of Article 4.

Unlike modern Indians, the author of the "Constitution of India" does not think that India's states, regions, and mandals are static, unchanging, and permanent. They had the maturity to realize that states will evolve and change, and therefore created provisions in the Indian Union for the establishment of new states. The Indian constitution gives the parliament the authority to change the territory or nomenclature of states without the agreement of the people. Bypassing legislation with a simple majority, can create new states and change the boundaries or names of existing ones.

Since 1956, many new states and union territories have been formed from existing states. On May 1, 1960, the Bombay Reorganisation Act linguistically divided the Bombay State into the present-day states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Nagaland became a separate state on December 1, 1963. The Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966 created a new Hindi-speaking state of Haryana from Punjab's southern regions, ceded the northern areas to Himachal Pradesh, and established a union territory around Chandigarh, Punjab, and Haryana's shared capital.

So, The creation of a new State in India from an existing State involves the consent of the legislature of the State concerned, the President and Parliament.

Thus, the answer is option ‘B’ i.e, 2, 3, and 4 are correct.

Note: In November 2000, three new states were formed: Chhattisgarh (1 November) was formed from eastern Madhya Pradesh, Uttaranchal (9 November), subsequently renamed Uttarakhand, was formed from the hilly areas of northwest Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand (15 November) from Bihar's southern districts. Telangana became the 29th state of the union on June 2, 2014, when it split from Andhra Pradesh. Jammu and Kashmir were divided into two new Union Territories on October 31, 2019: Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli united on January 26, 2020, to become a single Union Territories.