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Govt. plans to merge Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli
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- Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy introduced a Bill in the Lok Sabha on 26 Nov to merge the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
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- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill, 2019:
(1) Seeks to provide “better delivery of services to the citizens of both Union Territories by improving efficiency and reducing paper work.”
(2) Statement of objects and reasons:
(a) Two separate constitutional and administrative entities in both Union Territories leads to lot of duplication, inefficiency and wasteful expenditure.
(b) Considering the small population & limited geographical area of both Union Territories(UT’s), and to use the services of officers efficiently, the merger has been decided.
(c) Policy of government to have minimum government, maximum governance.
(d) Both UT’s share a lot in terms of administrative setup, history, language and culture.
- The move comes 3 months after the State of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir & Ladakh.
- India now has 9 Union Territories. With the merger of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the number will come down to eight.
Sources
The Hindu