3. Formation of Andhra State.—(1) As from the appointed day, there shall be formed a Part A
State to be known as the State of Andhra comprising the territories which immediately before that day
were comprised in Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur,
Nellore, Kurnool, Anantapur, Cuddapah and Chittoor districts and Alur, Adoni and Rayadrugtaluks of
Bellary district in the State of Madras and the said territories shall thereupon cease to form part of the
State of Madras.
(2) Without prejudice to the power of the State Government to alter hereafter the extent,
boundaries and names of districts, the said taluks of Alur and Adoni shall be included in, and become
part of, Kurnool district, and the said taluk of Rayadrug shall be included in, and become part of,
Anantapur district.
4. Transfer of territory from Madras to Mysore.—(1) As from the appointed day, there shall
be added to the State of Mysore the territory which immediately before that day was comprised in the
taluks of Bellary district other than Alur, Adoni and Rayadrug in the State of Madras, and the said
territory shall thereupon cease to form part of the State of Madras.
(2) Without prejudice to the power of the State Government to alter hereafter the extent,
boundaries and names of districts, the transferred territory shall form a separate district to be known
as Bellary district.
5. Amendment of the First Schedule to the Constitution.—In the First Schedule to the
Constitution.—
(a) in Part A, Entries 1 to 9 shall be renumbered as Entries 2 to 10 respectively, and before
Entry 2 as so renumbered, the entry “1. Andhra” shall be inserted;
(b) in Part A, in the description of the territories of States—
(i) before the paragraph relating to the territory of the State of Assam, the following
paragraph shall be inserted namely:—
“The territory of the State of Andhra shall comprise the territories specified in
sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Andhra State Act, 1953”; and
(ii) at the end of the last paragraph, the following shall be added, namely:—
“but in the case of the State of Madras shall not include the territories specified in
sub-section (1) of section 3 and sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Andhra State Act, 1953”;
and
(c) in Part B, at the end of the paragraph containing the description of the Territories of States,
the following shall be added, namely:—
“and in the case of the State of Mysore shall also comprise the territory specified in subsection (1) of section 4 of the Andhra State Act, 1953.”