Demand for Smaller States in India: A study of Telangana

Smaller States may lead to greater accountability and greater opportunities in delivering public services. Demand for statehood to different regions in different states was raised by disparate groups. Population growth and the multiplicity of development functions have rendered governance in large-size States inefficient. In the context of development planning under democracy, regional disparities with respect to the historically inherited levels of infrastructure and institutions within certain large States have given rise to serve tensions concerning the distribution of benefits had made certain regions underdeveloped. Demand for a separate state was being made was more backward than the rest of the state and the rulers of the state failed to provide proper attention to the development of the region. As a result, the region needed a separate state Finally, India's 29th State, Telangana was come into force.

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Dr. K. Kamala, Asst.Professor no Departamento de Ciência Política, Govt Grau de Colégio, Shadnagar. É membro do Conselho de Estudos, Universidade de Osmania, trabalhou como bolseira do projecto no Departamento de Ciência Política (CAS). Editou dois livros e apresentou trabalhos em seminários nacionais e internacionais e tem Publicações em Revistas Nacionais e Internacionais.