Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged states to focus on Viksit Bharat (developed India), saying their aim should be to make each state, city, municipality and village viksit.

Decentralisation does have downsides. With lots more states and cities, there would be non-stop elections, so India would need to create synchronised, regular voting cycles.

India now has 28 States and eight Union Territories .But that was not the case when the country became independent in 1947 Over 75 years, the Indian map has undergone several changes.