# Jammu and Kashmir reorganised; Ladakh a union territory
**जम्मू-कश्मीर पुनर्गठन; लद्दाख केंद्र शासित प्रदेश**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/ladakh-2019/
- Chapter: [The Republic and its states](https://indianepics.online/chapter/republic.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 2019 CE
- Where: Leh, Ladakh (34.152, 77.577)
- Tags: state-formation, political

## Summary

Article 370 is made inoperative in August; on 31 October Jammu and Kashmir becomes two union territories, one of them Ladakh.

अगस्त में अनुच्छेद 370 निष्प्रभावी किया गया; 31 अक्टूबर को जम्मू-कश्मीर राज्य दो केंद्र शासित प्रदेशों में बँटा, जिनमें एक लद्दाख है।

## Account

Presidential orders of 5 and 6 August 2019 applied the whole Constitution to the state and made Article 370 inoperative; the Reorganisation Act, signed on 9 August, took effect on 31 October. Ladakh became a union territory without a legislature. The Supreme Court upheld the changes in December 2023.

This is why the modern-boundary layer needs a 2019 slice. A smaller change followed in January 2020, when Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu merged into one union territory.

## Sources

- Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 (Act 34 of 2019) — https://www.indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/12030
- Supreme Court of India, In Re: Article 370 of the Constitution (11 December 2023)

## Image

Ladakh - Pangong Tso 1. Gktambe at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALadakh_-_Pangong_Tso_1.jpg

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