NEW MAPS OF UTs OF J&K AND LADAKH

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• About newly craved Union Territories

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The survey of India has come out with the maps of newly created Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh and the map of India depicting these UTs.

 

Highlights

• The new maps show the two UTs clearly demarcated.
• Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir’s Muzaffarabad and Mirpur areas have been kept as part of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Kargil and Gilgit and Baltistan have been shown as part of Ladakh UT.
• The UT of Ladakh now consists of two districts of Kargil and Leh while the rest of the erstwhile state of J&K is in the UT of J&K
• The President of India issued an order identifying Leh, Kargil, Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat, Chilhas and Tribal Territory of 1947 as part of the Ladakh UT.
• The Leh district of the new UT of Ladakh has been defined in the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Removal of Difficulties) Second Order, 2019, issued by Indian President, to include the areas of the districts of Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat, Chilhas and Tribal Territory of 1947, in addition to the remaining areas of Leh and Ladakh districts of 1947, after carving out the Kargil District.

 

Survey of India

Survey of India, The National Survey and Mapping Organization of the country under the Department of Science & Technology, is the OLDEST SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVT. OF INDIA.
It was set up in 1767.

 

Important information

• According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, in 1947, the former State of Jammu and Kashmir had the following 14 districts — Kathua, Jammu, Udhampur, Reasi, Anantnag, Baramulla, Poonch, Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, Leh and Ladakh, Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat, Chilhas and Tribal Territory.
• By 2019, the state government of former Jammu and Kashmir had reorganised the areas of these 14 districts into 28 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 these, Kargil district was carved out from the area of Leh and Ladakh district.

 

Source: Indian Express

 

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