Presidential Authority over Union Territories of India
Article 240 grants the President the authority to enact laws for the welfare, development and efficient administration of territories like Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Puducherry. However, in the case of Puducherry, such regulations can be imposed only after the assembly’s dissolution or suspension. These Presidential regulations carry the same legal weight as parliamentary acts.
Article 241 allows Parliament to declare any court within a territory as a High Court for the Constitution’s purposes. Only Delhi’s National Capital Territory has an independent High Court.
8 Union Territories of India
8 Union Territories of India: India has 8 union territories at present. India is a union of states, which includes characteristics of sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republics along with a Parliamentary system of Government. The President is the constitutional head of the Executive of the Union. The State of Jammu and Kashmir lost its statehood and was converted into a separate union territory and Ladakh was carved out of Jammu and Kashmir and created as a separate union territory on 31st October 2019. Union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli also Daman and Diu were established on 26 January 2020, merging them and hence India has 8 union territories and not 9.
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Table of Content
- Union Territories of India
- 8 Union Territories of India – Capitals, Area and Population
- Largest Union Territories of India
- Union Territories of India and Their Capitals
- Union Territories of India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Union Territories of India: Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- Union Territories of India: Lakshadweep
- Union Territories of India: Puducherry (Pondicherry)
- Union Territories of India: NCT of Delhi
- Union Territories of India: Chandigarh
- Union Territories of India: Ladakh
- Union Territories of India: Jammu and Kashmir