Under what circumstances will an area be declared as a Union Territory of India?
Curious to know how a particular area in the country gets to be declared as a Union Territory of India? Find out from the expert answers the possible conditions which are the deciding factors to declare a region of India as a Union Territory.
What are the Union Territories? Under what circumstances will an area be declared as a Union Territory?
At the time the Constitution of India was drafted, there was only one area as Union Territory. The Andaman and Nicobar island was the first union territory of India. But today the number of Union Territories in India has become Nine. They are -
1. Andaman and Nicobar
2. Chandigarh
3. Daman and Diu
4. Dadar and Nagar Haveli
5. Delhi
6. Jammu and Kashmir
7. Ladakh
8. Lakshadweep
9. Puducherry
Can you please give me a good answer about the conditions that are taken into consideration for the declaration of an area as a Union Territory?
At the time the Constitution of India was drafted, there was only one area as Union Territory. The Andaman and Nicobar island was the first union territory of India. But today the number of Union Territories in India has become Nine. They are -
1. Andaman and Nicobar
2. Chandigarh
3. Daman and Diu
4. Dadar and Nagar Haveli
5. Delhi
6. Jammu and Kashmir
7. Ladakh
8. Lakshadweep
9. Puducherry
Can you please give me a good answer about the conditions that are taken into consideration for the declaration of an area as a Union Territory?