The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, is Act 6 of 2014. Parliament enacted it to divide the existing State of Andhra Pradesh into successor States and to manage the legal, financial and administrative consequences. It is much more than a boundary map: its parts deal with legislatures, courts, finance, assets, corporations, public services, river waters, infrastructure, higher education and continuity of law. For AP Police exams, the first task is to place a fact in the right part of the Act.

The Act defines “existing State” as AP immediately before the appointed day and “successor States” as the two post-bifurcation states. This terminology prevents a common error: reading a reference to the undivided state's institutions as if it referred only to present AP. An asset in Hyderabad before division may require a different allocation rule from a road lying wholly in present AP. Keep the law's 2014 starting point separate from later events and amendments.

Worked example: A question describes an old AP corporation with offices in both successor States. Begin by asking whether the reference is to the undivided state immediately before 2 June 2014. The Act's definition of existing State fixes that starting point; present administrative control does not answer asset ownership by itself. Then locate the relevant allocation provision or Schedule and the later order that actually distributed the corporation's property.

Active recall: Give three subject areas beyond territory covered by the Act. Why does “existing State of Andhra Pradesh” differ from present AP?