The State Reorganization Act was passed on 31st August 1956. An Act to provide for the reorganization of the States of India and for matters connected therewith. The language was the basis of the reorganization of states in India in the year 1956. Additional InformationThe Act came into effect at the same time as the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, which (among other things) restructured the constitutional framework for India's existing states and the requirements to pass the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 under the provisions of Part I of the Constitution of IndiaThe States Reorganisation Act of 1956 implemented some of the recommendations of the SRC. In addition to the three Union Territories (UTs) proposed by the SRC. It also established Laccadive, Minicoy & Amindivi Islands, Himachal Pradesh, and Tripura as UTs. It established a total of 14 states in addition to these UTs.