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iah87 · Member Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 2566

http://www.samachar.com/Telangana-122-days-for-the-birth-of-a-new-state-nh4uKPbciae.html

Thats what India needs now, more states more capitols and more money spent on government buildings. Now you will have more states wanting to split - Vidarbha from Maharashtra, Saurashtra, Gorkha land (already they were agitating for years).

I doubt Hyderabad will benefit much in the long run. Most of new investment from Coastal Andhra will now go elsewhere.

Nimish · Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:10 am Post subject:

Woohoo - I bet the Congress is hopefully this will get them a bunch of seats in next year's LS elections. And that's the only reason for them announcing this.
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Spiderguy252 · Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:06 am Post subject:

I don't have a dog in this fight, but let's be fair - Andhra Pradesh is a huge state with as many as 84 million people - that's as much as the population of Germany with a quarter of the natural resources. Splitting it up into two or more chunks makes sense, and I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner.

We've seen smaller states grow faster than their mother states. Think I read a stat earlier today stating that flood-hit Uttarakhand in the period 2004-2012 grew at an average of 12-odd percent, whilst UP from which it was carved on only managed half that figure at 6-point something percent. So the data is there, smaller states are the way to go.
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The_Goat · Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:37 am Post subject:

iah87 · Member Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 2566

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Nagpur/After-Telangana-now-demand-for-Vidarbha-gains-momentum/Article1-1100583.aspx

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Telangana-cleared-now-deal-with-Gorkhaland-and-Bodoland/Article1-1100834.aspx

If AP is a large state, then Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu all should be split up too. Especially Maharashtra is next. Even present UP is still big and can be split up into two.

In the 1950's it was split along linguistic lines and that was the best solution. Do you think Gujarathis were happy under the erstwhile Bombay state or Mysore under Madras state. Telugu is the same whether it is in Telangana or Andhra, and people understand each other and got along quite well. I know that because I grew up in Hyderabad. Every one got along well with each other until KCR came along. In fact many districts in Telangana have grown more than many districts in Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra.

G-BYGB · Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 9:38 pm Post subject:

The demand for smaller states within the existing states is the direct result of the fallout of poor development planning, on the part of previous governments (both centre and state). In AP, the demand for Telangana state has been there since Independence.

Since independence, all of our states economic growth has centred around one city only. If there was equal attention given to all parts of the state than we would have had multiple economic centres all over the state. Then you might have not seen the disappointment of people from certain parts of the state.

For instance, in Maharashtra, the focus of economic development should have been focused to other cities as well rather than confined to only Mumbai. Similarly, even in Karnataka, where I'm from, here also the development should be focused on Northern Karnataka, Mysore and others rather than only in Bangalore.

In the end, this is only going to make the Indian economy even more stronger rather than have states only on the basis of language they speak. It is shifting more towards economic development.

I know it is a different situation in the US, but look at the states like California, Texas, Ohio and others, they have many cities which are economically self-dependant instead of relying on their state capitals alone.

As far as the next Indian state goes, I feel UP needs to be divided into smaller parts immediately. People have suffered enough of the miss-rule by SP, Congress and BSP for these many years.

One important point, if there is equal attention to every part of the region, then there won't be over-population in a particular city.
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iah87 · Member Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 2566