Write a note on state reorganization commission.

The States Reorganisation Commission was set up to reorganize the Indian states on linguistic basis; headed by Mr. Fazl Ali and its two other members were Pandit Hridayanath Kunzuru and Sardar K.M. Panikkar. Its important recommendations of the Commission are as follows: (i) The Indian Union was to consist of 16 States as against the existing 27 and three centrally and ministered territories. (ii) Special safeguards were recommended for linguistic minorities. (iii) The Commission put emphasis on the need for encouraging the study of Indian languages and continues English to have an important place in the universities and institutions of higher learning.