DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION OVERSEAS INDIAN REPRESENTATIVES IN OTHER COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES (High Commissioner); Fiji: A. D. Venkateswaran (Commissioner); Hong Kong: V. Siddharthacharry (Commissioner). COMMONWEALTH HIGH COMMISSIONERS Britain: Th Rt. Hon. Sir Morrice James, P. K. 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(Ambassador); Venezuela (Ambassador) (resident in Rio de Janeiro); Vietnam (North) (Consul General); Vietnam (South) (Consul General); Yemen (Ambassador) (resident in Cairo); Yugoslavia (Ambassador). THE STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNION The Executive of each State consists of a Governor appointed by the President and normally holding his office for a period of five years, and a Council of Ministers who must be, or within six months become, members of the Legislature of the State. In some States the Legislature consists of a single House only, the Legislative Assembly, but in other States there is an Upper House as well, the Legislative Council. Each assembly is elected directly by adult suffrage and has a maximum life of five years and strict limits as to maximum and minimum membership. The legislative field is divided explicitly between the Union and the States, the residual powers belonging to the Union. In case of conflict, Union law overrides State law. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, the Union Parliament may make laws for the whole or any part of the territory of India, and the Legislature of a State may make laws for the whole or any part of the State. The Union Parliament has exclusive powers to make laws with respect to matters grouped under 97 headings in the Constitution, including, e.g., foreign affairs, defence, citizenship, currency, banking, railways, aviation, shipping, communications and trade and commerce with other countries. The State Legislatures have exclusive power to make laws for their own States with respect to matters grouped under 66 headings in the Constitution, e.g., public order and police, education, public health, the administration of justice, elections to the Legislature, excise and taxes, water, land and forests. The Union Parliament and, subject to the exclusive powers referred to above, the State Legislatures have concurrent powers to make laws with respect to certain matters which are grouped under 47 headings in the Constitution, including criminal law and procedure, marriage and divorce, civil procedure, social security, labour, trade and commerce. The Judges of the High Court of a State are appointed by the President, not by the Governor. The President may proclaim an emergency which empowers the Union Government to assume executive and financial control of any State, but the proclamation must be approved subsequently by the Union Parliament. For up to three years the President may, if satisfied that the State cannot be governed in accordance with its constitution, himself assume the functions of Government subject to his proclamations (each valid for six months) receiving the subsequent approval of the Union Parliament. The Union Territories are administered, save as otherwise provided by Parliament, by the President acting through an Administrator or other authority appointed by him. Population figures mentioned below are based on the 1961 census. ANDHRA PRADESH The State of Andhra was formed in 1953 out of the Telugu-speaking parts of Madras State. Under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, its size was almost doubled by the incorporation of the Telugu-speaking areas of the former Princely State of Hyderabad and its name was changed to Andhra Pradesh. Its area is about 106,000 square miles and its population about 40 million. The State capital is Hyderabad. The Congress Party (Ruling) form the State Government. Governor: Khandubhai K. Desai ASSAM The State of Assam comprises the former Province of Assam, the North East Frontier Agency (N.E.F.A.), and a number of small Princely States. Its borders were affected by the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. Its principal language is Assamese. Its area is about 85,000 square miles and the population excluding tribal areas is nearly 14 million. The State capital is Shillong. The Congress Party (Ruling) form the State Government. Governor: B. K. Nehru Within the State of Assam is the sub-state of Meghalaya which was formed in April 1970 and is formed from the two Assam hill Districts of Garo and United Khasi and Jaintia Hills. Its population is just under one million. The All Party Hill Leaders Conference party form the State Governmentl Governor: B. K. Nehru BIHAR The State of Bihar comprises the former Province of Bihar and the two small Princely States of Kharsawan and Seraikella. Under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, it lost some territory to the neighbouring State of West Bengal. Its principal language is Hindi. Its area is about 67,000 square miles and its population about 52 million. The state capital is Patna. The Congress Party (Ruling) form the State Government. Governor: Nityanand Kanungo GUJARAT Established on 1st May 1960, following the division of the bi-lingual Bombay State, Gujarat comprises the former States of Saurashtra and Kutch and the Gujarati-speaking area in the north of the former Bombay State reaching as far south as Surat. The area of the new State is about 72,000 square miles and its population about 24 million. The temporary State capital is Ahmedabad pending the completion of a new capital to be called Gandhinagar some 15 miles further north. The Congress Party (Opposition) form the State Government. Governor: Shriman Narayan Chief Minister: Hitendra Desai Haryana was established as a separate State in 1966 following the reorganisation of the Punjab (of which it was previously a part) on linguistic lines. Its principal language is Hindi. Its area is about 17,000 square miles and its population about 8 million. The State capital is in Chandigarh (the former capital of the Punjab, which is now a Union Territory). The Congress Party (Ruling) form the State Government. Acting Governor: B. N. Chakravarty Chief Secretary: Saroop Krishen KERALA The State of Kerala was formed in 1956 out of most of the former Malayalamspeaking State of Travancore-Cochin (originally a Union of Princely States) together with the Malabar District of Madras, also Malayalam-speaking. Its area is about 15,000 square miles and its population nearly 19 million. The State capital is Trivandrum. The State Government is a coalition led by the CPI. The State of Madhya Governor: V. Viswanathan Chief Minister: Acutha Menon MADHYA PRADESH Pradesh originally comprised the former Central Provinces and Berar and 15 Princely States. In 1956 its borders were substantially redrawn. It lost territory in the south-west (Berar) to Bombay and acquired the former States of Bhopal, Madhya Bharat and Vindhya Pradesh, all originally Princely States or unions of such States. Its principal language is Hindi. Its area is about 171,000 square miles and its population about 37 million. Its capital is Bhopal. The Congress Party (Ruling) form the State Government. Governor: K. C. Reddy Chief Minister: S. C. Shukla MAHARASHTRA Established on 1st May 1960 following the division of the bi-lingual Bombay State, Maharashtra comprises the area of the former Bombay State south and east of Surat District (including Vidarbha). The area of the new State is about 118,500 square miles and its population about 45 million. The principal language is Marathi. The State capital is Bombay City. The Congress Party (Ruling) form the State Government. Governor: Dr Nawab Ali Yavar Jung Chief Minister: V. P. Naik MYSORE The State of Mysore comprises the former Princely State of Mysore, more than doubled in size in 1956 by the addition of the Kannada-speaking areas of Bombay, Hyerabad, Madras and Coorg. Its area is about 74,000 square miles and its population about 26 million. The State capital is Bangalore. The Congress Party (Opposition) form the State Government. Govenor: A. R. Somnath Iyer NAGALAND Under the Constitution (Thirteenth Amendment) Act 1962, the areas comprised in the Naga Hills-Tuensang Area, known by the name of Nagaland, became a separate State of the Indian Union. The State has an area of 6,236 square miles and the population number about 400,000. The State capital is Kohima. As a result of elections held in February, 1969 the Naga Nationalist Organisation won an overall majority in the State Assembly, and form the State Government. Governor: B. K. Nehru Chief Minister: Mokishe Sema ORISSA The State of Orissa comprises the former Province of Orissa and 24 former Princely States. Its borders were unaffected by the States Reorganization Act, 1956. Its principal language is Oriya. Its area is about 60,000 square miles and its population about 20 million. The State capital is Bhubaneshwar. The State Government is a coalition led by the Swatantra Party. Governor: Shaukatullah Shah Ansari PUNJAB The Punjab lost its strict claim to the name (which means 'Five Rivers') when it was partitioned in 1947. In 1956 it was enlarged by the incorporation of a group of former Princely States. In 1966 it was reorganised and divided on linguistic lines. The present Punjab, the main language of which is Punjabi, thus represents only a small portion of the original Punjab. Its area is about 19,500 square miles, and its population about 15 million. The State capital is in Chandigarh (a city which is now a Union Territory). The State Government is a coalition led by the Akali Dal (a regional predominantly Sikh party). Governor: D. C. Pavate RAJASTHAN The State of Rajasthan was formed by the union of 18 minor and four major Princely States, including Jaipur, Bikaner, Jodhpur and Udaipur. It was enlarged in 1956 by the addition of Ajmer. Its principal language is Hindi. Its area is about 132,000 square miles and its population about 23 million. The State capital is Jaipur. The Congress Party form the State Government. Governor: Sardar Hukam Singh H |