Second Five-Year Plan Andhra Pradesh Review of Progress 1956-57 to 1960-61

Abstract

The State was formed on 1st November, 1956 by the integration of Telangana region of the erstwhile Hyderabad State with the former Andhra State. It extends over an area of 106,052 square miles forming 8.4% of the total geographic area of the Indian Union. The total population of the State according to the provisional results of 1961 Census was 35.98 millions or 8.2% of estimated population of the Indian Union. The State's population is larger than that of Canada, Australia, Philippines, Yugoslavia, Iran, U.A.R. Both in area and population, Andhra Pradesh is bigger than Ceylon, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland.