सं Samvidhan

First Schedule

First Schedule (The States and the Union Territories)

Articles 1 and 4

The First Schedule lists the names of the States and Union Territories that together constitute the Union of India and defines the territorial extent of each, tracing them to specific reorganisation and boundary-alteration Acts. It gives legal effect to Article 1's declaration that India is a Union of States and operationalises Article 4, which allows Parliament to amend this Schedule by ordinary law when admitting or forming new states or altering boundaries. It has been amended repeatedly since 1950 to reflect linguistic reorganisation, creation of new states (e.g., Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Telangana), renaming of states/UTs, and territorial changes such as the 2019 reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories. It matters because it is the authoritative legal record of India's internal territorial structure and the basis for determining which laws and boundaries apply where.

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