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Kashmir and Ladakh Lieutenant Governors – State Dissolved
October 31 , 2019
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- A 1985 batch IAS officer, Girish Chandra Murmu, has been named as the first Lieutenant Governor (L-G) of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Radha Krishna Mathur, a retired 1977 batch IAS officer of Tripura cadre has been appointed as the first Lieutenant Governor of the union territory of Ladakh.
- He had retired as the Chief Information Commissioner of India in November 2018.
- The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir high court Geeta Mittal.
State Dissolved
- From October 31, Jammu & Kashmir ceased to be a state of the Union.
- This is for the first time that a state is converted into two Union Territories.
- The UT of J&K will have a legislature, like Puducherry, while Ladakh will be a UT without legislature, like Chandigarh.
- But there are numerous examples of a UT becoming a full state or a state bifurcating into two states.
- The total number of states in the country will now be reduced to 28 while the number of UTs will go up to 9.
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