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01/06/22 08:24 AM IST

Telangana Formation Day

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  • The Ministry of Culture is organising Telangana Formation Day celebrations at Dr Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi .
About Telangana 
  • On 2nd June, 2014 the northwestern part of Andhra Pradesh was separated and 29th state Telangana was created with Hyderabad as its capital.
  • The Andhra State Act (1953) formed the first linguistic state of India, known as the state of Andhra, by taking out the Telugu speaking areas from the State of Madras (now Tamil Nadu).
  • The States Reorganisation Act (1956) merged the Telugu-speaking areas of Hyderabad state with the Andhra state to create the enlarged Andhra Pradesh state.
  • The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act (2014) bifurcated Andhra Pradesh into two separate states, namely, the Andhra Pradesh (residuary) and the Telangana.
  • The state of Telangana was officially formed on 2nd June 2014 and the day is celebrated as ‘Telangana Day’ or ‘Telangana Formation Day’. 
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