V. Other Demands for State Creation:

There are still long pending demands for state formation on the different basis viz. ethnicity, lack of development, administrative inconvenience. Some of the prominent demands for separate statehood are:

♤ Gorkhaland (WB),

♤ Kamatpur state for Koch Rajbangsi (Assam), Bodoland (Assam),

♤ Vidharbha (MH),

♤ Saurashtra (Gujarat),

♤ fourfold division of Uttar Pradesh in the form of Harit Pradesh, Awadh Pradesh, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand (some parts of UP and MP).

Demands of separate statehood on various grounds show that language is not the sole glue that can bind people together. Now some people are aspiring for preservation of their ethnic culture in the form of separate state and on the other hand some people are aspiring for better development after prolonged apathy and backwardness.