States Reorganisation Act 1956
Parliament redrew India's state boundaries largely along linguistic lines in 1956, replacing the Part A to D classification with 14 states and 6 union territories.
Evidence points +15.5 (range +15.0 to +16.0)
Governance & Federalism
Centre-State relations
Coverage balance
How many entries exist for each party's governments and each decade. This shows where the record is thin, so a quiet period reads as a gap in coverage, not as inactivity.
Dossiers
No dossier is published under this sub-category yet.
Actions in time order, by government
Jawaharlal Nehru, 15 Aug 1947 to 27 May 1964
INC INC government
P. V. Narasimha Rao, 21 Jun 1991 to 16 May 1996
INC INC government
73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments (panchayats and municipalities)
The 1992 amendments gave constitutional status to panchayats and urban local bodies, with five-year terms, state election commissions, finance commissions and one-third reservation for women.
Evidence points +13.5 (range +13.0 to +14.0)
Narendra Modi, 30 May 2019 to 9 Jun 2024
BJP NDA government
Abrogation of Article 370 and reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir
In August 2019 the President ended the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir and Parliament split the state into two Union Territories; the Supreme Court upheld the abrogation in 2023.
Evidence points +1.5 (range +1.0 to +2.0)