Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. Form of administrative division in India This article is about the union territories of India. For other uses, see Federal territory and Union territory (disambiguation). Union territory National Capital Territory Jammu and Kashmir Ladakh Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Dadra and ...
India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories. [1] All states, as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, have elected legislatures and governments, both patterned on the Westminster model.
The former Union Territory of Nagaland achieved statehood on 1 December 1963. [11] The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 resulted in the creation of Haryana on 1 November and the transfer of the northern districts of Punjab to Himachal Pradesh. [12] The act designated Chandigarh as a union territory and the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana. [13]
Part I—The Union and Its territories is a compilation of laws pertaining to the constitution of India as a country and the union of states that it is made of.. This part of the Indian constitution contains the law in establishment, renaming, merging or altering the borders of the states or union territories.
Jammu [b] and Kashmir [c] (abbreviated J&K) is a region administered by India as a union territory [1] and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959. [3]
Aspirant states and union territories of India. The constitutional power to create new states and union territories in India is solely reserved with the Parliament of India, which can do so by announcing new states/union territories, separating territory from an existing state or merging two or more states/union territories or parts of them. [1]
In July 2019, the Government of India proposed merging the two territories into a single union territory in order to reduce duplication of services and reduce the cost of administration. Legislation to this effect, the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union territories) Bill, 2019, was tabled in the Parliament of India on 26 ...
The Government of India (ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India [2] and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the national authority of the Republic of India, located in South Asia, consisting of 36 states and union territories.