India Gets Its New Political Map With Jammu & Kashmir And Ladakh Becoming Union Territories

On August 5, Home Minister Amit Shah, announced the government’s decision to scrap Article 370 and Article 35A of the constitution. Article 370 grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and gives the power to the state legislature in defining its ‘permanent residents’ and also privileges and rights.?

After this decision, Jammu and Kashmir became the first Indian state to be reduced to Union Territory with former IAS officer Girish Murmu being swearing in as its first Lieutenant Governor. Divided from the state, Ladakh also became a Union Territory with R. K. Mathur swearing in as its Lieutenant Governor.?

With the new Union Territories coming into existence, the new political map of India was officially released by the Government of India. With the inclusion of these two new UTs, India now has 28 states and 9 Union Territories.?

Here is the new map:?

Here is the list of 9 Union Territories:?

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

Here is the list of 28 states:?

1. ?Andhra Pradesh
2. ?Arunachal Pradesh
3. ?Assam
4. Bihar
5. ?Chhattisgarh
6. Goa
7. ?Gujarat
8. ?Haryana
9. Himachal Pradesh
10. Jharkhand
11. ?Karnataka
12. ?Kerala
13. ?Madhya Pradesh
14. ?Maharashtra
15. Manipur
16. Meghalaya
17. ?Mizoram
18. ?Nagaland
19. ?Odisha
20. ?Punjab
21. ?Rajasthan
22. Sikkim
23. Tamil Nadu
24. ?Telangana
25. ?Tripura
26. Uttar Pradesh
27. ?Uttarakhand
28. West Bengal

Situation in Jammu and Kashmir is still under lockdown, though phone services were restored in the valley. Postpaid mobile phone services were restored on the BSNL network in the Kashmir Valley.