Significance of the Tenth Amendment Act
By amending the First Schedule to the Constitution with the Tenth Amendment Act, 1961, Dadra and Nagar Haveli was made the seventh Union Territory of India.
For the purpose of enabling the President to make regulations regarding the good government, progress and peace of the territory of the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the Act also amended Article 240(1) of the Indian Constitution. On 11 August 1961, Tenth Amendment Act retroactively came into effect.