What was the task of the States Reorganisation Commission? What was its most salient recommendation?

The State Reorganization Commission was set up in 1953 by central government to look into the matter of redrawing of boundaries of state:

 1. The commission evolved that states’ boundaries should reflect the boundaries of different languages to accommodate linguistic diversity. 

2. The State Reorganization Act was passed in 1956 which resulted the creation of 14 states and 6 union territories. 

3. Its most salient recommendation was the formation of linguistic states i.e. to reorganize states on the basis of accommodation of their languages to prepare a uniform base for the nation.

It was decided that after independence, States would be created on the basis of language. On 22 December 1953, Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru informed the Lok Sabha about the formation of a Commission to recommend the modes of State Reorganization. Fazal Ali was the head of this Commission. The Commission recommended that the reorganization of States should be based on language and culture.

The formation of Andhra spurred the struggle in other parts of the country for making of other states on linguistic basis. These struggles forced the Central Government into appointing a State Reorganisation Commission in 1953 to look into the question of redrawing of the boundaries of states. The Commission in its report accepted that the boundaries of the state should reflect the boundaries of different languages. On the basis of its report the States Reorganisation Act was passed in 1956. This led to the creation of 14 states and six union territories.