The UT of Ladakh consists of 2 districts of Kargil and Leh whereas the remainder of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir is within the UT of Jammu and Kashmir. Kargil district was lapidarian out from the world of Leh and Ladakh district.
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New Delhi: The government on weekday discharged the maps of new created Union Territories (UTs) of Jammu and Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh and therefore the map of Bharat portrayal these UTs.
In a statement, the Ministry of Home Affairs aforesaid the UT of Ladakh consists of 2 districts of Kargil and Leh whereas the remainder of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir is within the UT of Jammu and Kashmir.
In 1947, the erstwhile state of Jammu and Jammu and Kashmir had the subsequent fourteen districts - Kathua, Jammu, Udhampur, Reasi, Anantnag, Baramulla, Poonch, Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, Leh and Ladakh, Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat, Chilies, and social group Territory.
By 2019, the govt. of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Jammu and Kashmir had reorganized the areas of those fourteen districts into twenty-eight districts.
The names of the new districts were - Kupwara, Bandipur, Ganderbal, Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Shupian, Kulgam, Rajouri, Ramban, Doda, Kishtivar, Samba, and Kargil.
Out of those, Kargil district was lapidarian out from the world of Leh and Ladakh district.
The Leh district of the new UT of Ladakh has been outlined within the Jammu and Jammu and Kashmir reorganization (Removal of Difficulties) Second Order, 2019, issued by the President of Bharat, to incorporate the areas of the districts of Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat, Chilies and social group Territory of 1947, additionally to the remaining areas of Leh and Ladakh districts of 1947, once carving out the Kargil District.
The maps ready by Survey General of Bharat portrayal the new UTs of Jammu and Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, as created on Oct thirty-one, 2019, in conjunction with the map of Bharat, square measure discharged, the statement aforesaid.
On the advice of Parliament, the President effectively razed Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and gave assent to the Jammu and Jammu and Kashmir reorganization Act, 2019.
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the direction of Union Home Minister Amit monarch, the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir has been reorganized because of the new Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and therefore the new Union Territory of Ladakh on Oct thirty-one, 2019, the statement aforesaid.
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