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Transfer of Prisoners Act: 1950: 29 Union Territories (Laws) Act: 1950: 30 Army and Air Force (Disposal of Private Property) Act: 1950: 40 Ajmer Tenancy and Land Records Act: 1950: 42 Representation of the People Act: 1950: 43 Air Force Act: 1950: 45 Army Act: 1950: 46 Contingency Fund of India Act: 1950: 49 Road Transport Corporations Act ...
The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organising them along linguistic lines. [1]Although additional changes to India's state boundaries have been made since 1956, the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 remains the most extensive change in state boundaries after the independence of India.
The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's North-East region into States and union territories. Effect of the changes [ edit ]
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities. [1] The states and union territories are further subdivided into 800 districts and smaller administrative divisions .
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]
The Constitution of India states that a State Legislative Assembly must have no less than 60 and no more than 500 members however an exception may be granted via an Act of Parliament as is the case in the states of Goa, Sikkim, Mizoram and the union territory of Puducherry which have fewer than 60 members.
Articles 245–255 on Distribution of Legislative Powers. The Constitution provides for a three-fold distribution of legislative subjects between the Union and the states, viz., List-I (the Union List), List-II (the State List) and List-III (the Concurrent List) in the Seventh Schedule: (i) The Parliament has exclusive powers to make laws with respect to any of the matters enumerated in the ...
70. Union public services; all-India services; Union Public Service Commission. 71. Union Pensions, that is to say, pensions payable by the Government of India or out of the Consolidated Fund of India. 72. Elections to Parliament, to the Legislatures of States and to the offices of President and Vice-President; the Election Commission. 73.