Dadra and Nagar Haveli were both liberated in 1954 by Indian nationalists but the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli was not declared till 1961. Technically speaking, it is only after that, that Dadra and Nagar Haveli became part of India. Usually, the administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli also acted as the administrator of Daman and Diu. The union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli was merged with the nearby territory of Daman and Diu to create the new union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu on 26 January 2020 and the office of Administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli was abolished on that date.[ citation needed ]
After Dadra and Nagar Haveli liberated Gujarat cadre IAS officer K. G. Badlani was appointed Prime Minister of the territory on August 11, 1961. He became Prime Minister for one day.
He ceded the territory to India. As a Prime Minister, he had signed an agreement with then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru. [1]
Name | Took office | Left office |
---|---|---|
R. V. Mudras | 22 July 1954 | 24 July 1954 |
Jayantibhai Desai | 22 July 1954 | 1 August 1954 |
Vishwanath Lawande | 2 August 1954 | 15 August 1954 |
Atmaram "Appasaheb" Narsinh Karmalkar | 15 August 1954 | May 1955 |
Antoni Furtado | May 1955 | 17 October 1960 |
Kishinchand Gobindram Badlani | 17 October 1960 | 8 June 1962 |
Tumkur Sivasankar | 8 June 1962 | 2 September 1963 |
M.R. Sachdev | 2 September 1963 | 8 December 1964 |
Hari Sharma | 12 December 1964 | 24 February 1965 |
Kashinath Raghunath Damle | 24 February 1965 | 18 April 1967 |
Nakul Sen | 18 April 1967 | 16 November 1972 |
S.K. Banerjee | 16 November 1972 | 16 November 1977 |
Pratap Singh Gill | 16 November 1977 | 31 March 1981 |
Jagmohan | 31 March 1981 | 30 August 1982 |
Idris Hasan Latif (acting) | 30 August 1982 | 24 February 1983 |
Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala | 24 February 1983 | 4 July 1984 |
Idris Hasan Latif (acting) | 4 July 1984 | 24 September 1984 |
Gopal Singh | 24 September 1984 | 18 July 1989 |
Khurshed Alam Khan | 18 July 1989 | 25 March 1991 |
Bhanu Prakash Singh | 25 March 1991 | 16 March 1992 |
K.S. Baidwan | 16 March 1992 | 28 March 1994 |
Ramesh Chandra | 28 March 1994 | 15 July 1995 |
S.P. Aggarwal | 15 July 1995 | 26 June 1998 |
Ramesh Negi (acting) | 26 June 1998 | 23 February 1999 |
Sanat Kaul | 23 February 1999 | 23 April 1999 |
Ramesh Negi(acting) | 23 April 1999 | 19 July 1999 |
O.P. Kelkar | 19 July 1999 | 2003 |
Arun Mathur | 2003 | 2006 |
R.K. Verma | 2006 | 2009 |
Shri Satya Gopal, IAS | 2009 | 2011 |
Shri. Narendra Kumar, IAS | 2011 | 2012 |
B. S. Bhalla | 28 August 2012 | 18 August 2014 |
Ashish Kundra | 18 August 2014 | 13 March 2016 |
Vikram Dev Dutt | 14 March 2016 | 3 October 2016 |
Madhup Vyas | 4 October 2016 | 29 December 2016 |
Praful Khoda Patel | 30 December 2016 | 26 January 2020 |
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into 785 districts and smaller administrative divisions.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli is a district of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu in western India. It is composed of two separate geographical entities: Nagar Haveli, wedged in between Maharashtra and Gujarat states 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) to the north-west, and the smaller enclave of Dadra, which is surrounded by Gujarat. Silvassa is the administrative headquarters of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Daman and Diu was a union territory in northwestern India. With an area of 112 km2 (43 sq mi), it was the smallest administrative subdivision of India on the mainland. The territory comprised two districts, Daman and Diu island, geographically separated by the Gulf of Khambat. The state of Gujarat and the Arabian Sea bordered the territory. A Portuguese colony since the 1500s, the territories were taken by India with the Annexation of Goa in 1961. Daman and Diu were administered as part of the union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu between 1961 and 1987. After the Goa Opinion Poll, they became a separate union territory. In 2019, legislation was passed to merge the union territory of Daman and Diu with its neighbouring union territory, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, to form the new union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu with effect from 26 January 2020.
Goa, Daman and Diu was a union territory of the Republic of India established in 1961 following the annexation of Portuguese India, with Maj Gen K P Candeth as its first Military Governor. The Goa portion of the territory was granted full statehood within the Indian union on 30 May 1987, Daman and Diu remained a separate territory until December 2019, when it was merged with Dadra and Nagar Haveli and is today the territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Diu district is one of the three districts of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu of India. The district is made up of Diu Island and two small enclaves in the State of Gujarat. The district headquarters are at Diu Town. It is the ninth least populous district in the country.
The Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli was the conflict in which the territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli passed from Portuguese rule to independent rule, with Indian allegiance, in 1954.
A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India. Unlike the states of India, which have their own governments, union territories are federal territories governed, in part or in whole, by the Union Government of India. There are currently eight union territories in India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi (NCT), Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Lakshadweep and Puducherry.
The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution Act, 1961, incorporated Dadra and Nagar Haveli as the seventh Union territory of India, by amending the First Schedule to the Constitution. It also amended clause (1) of article 240 of the Constitution to include therein the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in order to enable the President to "make regulations for the peace, progress and good government of the territory". The 10th Amendment retroactively came into effect on 11 August 1961.
The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Police is the law enforcement agency for the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu in India.
Praful Khoda Patel is an Indian politician who is currently the unelected administrator of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and the union territory of Lakshadweep.
Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli was a de facto independent political entity that existed in the Indian Sub-continent between 1954 and 1961. It was declared by pro-India forces that had gained control of the region from Portugal in 1954 and ceased to exist after being formally annexed by India on 11 August 1961 as the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is a union territory in India. The territory was constituted through the merger of the former territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Plans for the proposed merger were announced by the Government of India in July 2019; the necessary legislation was passed in the Parliament of India in December 2019 and came into effect on 26 January 2020. The territory is made up of four separate geographical entities: Dadra, Nagar Haveli, Daman, and the island of Diu. All four areas were formerly part of Portuguese India, with a joint capital at Panjim, Goa. They came under Indian rule in the mid-20th century after the Annexation of Goa and of the Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Goa, Daman and Diu were jointly administered until 1987, when Goa was granted statehood after the Konkani language agitation. The current capital is Daman and Silvassa is the largest city.
The first elections to the Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly were held in December 1963, to elect members of the 30 constituencies, in the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu, India.
The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Football Association (DDFA) is the governing body of football in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is affiliated with the All India Football Federation, the national governing body. It sends state teams for Santosh Trophy and Senior Women's National Football Championship.
The Administration of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is the governing body of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. The administration is led by an administrator appointed by the President of India. The union territory doesn't have an elected legislative assembly. It governs three districts.