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Important Points to Remember in Chapter -1 - Part I Union and Its Territories from Cengage Experts Team Indian Polity For UPSC And State Civil Services Examinations Solutions

Part I Union and Its Territories

  1. Framing of the Indian Constitution: The idea to have a Constitution was first given by MN Roy. The Constitution was framed by the Constituent Assembly of India.
  2. Enactment of the Constitution: The Constituent Assembly took two years, 11 months and 18 days to complete the Constitution. The Constitution is adopted on 26th November 1949, contained a Preamble, 395 Articles divided into 22 Parts and 8 Schedules. The Constitution came into force on 26th January 1950, known as Republic Day of India and the National Flag was adopted on 22nd July 1947 designed by Pingali Venkayya.

Part I deals with The Union and its territory (from Art. 1 to 4)

1. ARTICLE 1 : NAME AND TERRITORY OF THE UNION

(i) India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.

(ii) The States and the territories thereof shall be as specified in the First Schedule.

(iii) The territory of India shall comprise:

(a) the territories of the States;
(b) the Union territories specified in the First Schedule; and
(c) such other territories as may be acquired.

2. ARTICLE – 2:

Deals with the admission or establishment of new States. Parliament may by law admit into the Union, or establish, new States based on terms and conditions.

3. ARTICLE – 3:

Formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States.

4. ARTICLE – 4: 

Laws made under articles 2 and 3 to provide for the amendment of the First and the Fourth Schedules and supplemental, incidental and consequential matters