After India achieved Independence, it had to face the linguistic formation problem. Many organizations and the people demanded to mark the boundaries based on the language of the areas. The ** of the people for linguistic formation of states was intense. In 1953 the government formed Justice Fazal Ali Commission in which Fazal Ali was the Chairman, K.M. Panickker and H.N. Kunjru were the members. Andhra Pradesh became the first state on the base of language. As per the report of the Commission, the State Reorganisation Act came into force in 1956. Accordingly, 14 states and 6 Union Territories were formed in the country. On November 1st, 1956, Mysore State came into existence on the base of Kannada speaking areas. In 1973 Mysore was renamed as Karnataka State.
