The States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) was a body constituted by the Central Government of India in 1953 to recommend the reorganisation of state boundaries. In 1955, after nearly 2 years of study, the Commission recommended that India's state boundaries should be reorganised to form 16 states and 3 union territories. States Reorganisation Commission consisted of Fazal Ali, K M Panikkar and Hridayanath Kunzru.