The President has power to make regulations regarding which of the following? 1. Dadra & Nagar Haveli 2. Daman & Diu 3. Goa, Daman & Diu 4. Puducherry
- (a)1, 2, 3, 4
- (b)1, 2, 3
- (c)1, 3, 4
- (d)1, 2, 4
Correct — D, 1, 2, 4.
Article 240(1) names the Union territories for which the President may make regulations for their 'peace, progress and good government'.
Today the list reads: the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and Puducherry. Items 1, 2 and 4 are on it, so the key is 1, 2, 4.
Item 3 is a name from the past. 'Goa, Daman and Diu' was one Union territory from December 1961 (constitutionally, by the Twelfth Amendment, 1962) until 30 May 1987, when Goa became a State and the Reorganisation Act cut the entry down to 'Daman and Diu'.
Since 26 January 2020 that remainder sits with Dadra and Nagar Haveli in a single merged Union territory.
Puducherry stays listed even though it has a Legislature. A proviso stops the President making regulations while that Legislature functions, and revives the power when it is dissolved or suspended.
The idea to carry away: read Article 240 with the current map, because Goa left the list in 1987.
- (a)1, 2, 3, 4 — This treats 'Goa, Daman and Diu' and 'Daman and Diu' as two live entries side by side. 'Daman and Diu' entered Article 240 as a separate name in 1987 precisely because the Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act replaced the older combined entry when Goa became a State.
The option is right about the historical sweep.
The four names have each stood in Article 240 at some date since 1961, but the stem carries no date, and a bare present-tense stem is read against the Article as it now stands rather than against names it has carried over time.
- (b)1, 2, 3 — This keeps the dead entry 'Goa, Daman and Diu' and drops Puducherry. Each move is wrong. Goa's statehood in 1987 ended the combined Union territory, and Puducherry remains sub-clause (e) of Article 240(1).
What the proviso actually does is narrower: it pauses the President's regulation-making for Puducherry from the first meeting of its Legislature and restores it during dissolution or suspension.
Puducherry's Legislature limits the timing of the power, not Puducherry's place on the list.
- (c)1, 3, 4 — Between the Fourteenth Amendment of 1962 and Goa's statehood on 30 May 1987 the entry read 'Goa, Daman and Diu', alongside Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Pondicherry and the two island territories — and, from 1972 until 20 February 1987, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh as well.
So the option is a correct answer to which of the four names in this stem were in Article 240 in, say, 1980.
Since 1987 the entry has read 'Daman and Diu', and since 26 January 2020 it has been folded into 'Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu'. Dropping item 2 removes a place the President's power has covered since the Twelfth Amendment Act, 1962.
Union territories are administered by the President through an Administrator (Article 239), and Parliament legislates for them under Article 246(4). Article 240 adds a third instrument for a named few: regulations made by the President, which carry the force of an Act of Parliament and can repeal or amend one.
Because the list is written into the Constitution, it changes when Parliament amends it, whether by a constitutional amendment or by a reorganisation Act carrying a consequential amendment.
The names therefore track statehood, mergers and renamings, which is why an old name can survive in a question long after it has left the text.
The regulation power is the constitutional reason the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu can be governed with detailed local codes without a legislature of their own.
Puducherry differs: it received a Legislature under Article 239A, so the proviso stops the President making regulations for Puducherry from the first meeting of that Legislature, reviving the power only on dissolution or suspension.
In the Uttarakhand paper the item belongs to Indian Polity, Part VIII of the Constitution. It tests whether a candidate carries the post-1987 and post-2020 map of Union territories into Article 240 rather than an older textbook table.
- Article 240(1) lets the President make regulations for the 'peace, progress and good government' of the Union territories it names.
- The territories named today are the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and Puducherry.
- Goa became a State on 30 May 1987 under the Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act, 1987; Daman and Diu stayed a Union territory.
- The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act, 2019 merged them from 26 January 2020, substituting entry (c) with the joint name and omitting entry (d).
- A proviso bars the President from making regulations for Puducherry from the first meeting of its Legislature; the power revives during dissolution or suspension of that Legislature.
- Under Article 240(2), a regulation may repeal or amend an Act of Parliament applicable to the territory and has the same force and effect as an Act of Parliament.
- Delhi, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are absent from the Article 240 list; Delhi has its own scheme in Article 239AA.
- Pondicherry was renamed Puducherry by the Pondicherry (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006, with effect from 1 October 2006.
- Article 240(1) grew by amendment — Tenth (1961) Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Twelfth (1962) Goa, Daman and Diu, Fourteenth (1962) Pondicherry, Twenty-seventh (1971) Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh, the last two omitted in 1987.
Three of the four names are on today's list; 'Goa, Daman and Diu' left it in 1987 when Goa became a State.
- Reading 'Goa, Daman & Diu' as a live name. It was one Union territory from December 1961 to 1987; Goa's statehood dissolved that unit, and keeping it alongside 'Daman & Diu' leads straight to option (a).
- Reading Puducherry's proviso as removal. The proviso suspends the President's power while the Assembly functions; Puducherry itself stays in Article 240(1)(e).
- Treating the 2020 merger as a deletion. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu are now one Union territory, but each place is still under the President's regulation power.
- Mixing Article 240 (President's regulations) with Article 239B (ordinances by the Administrator of Puducherry) or Article 239AA (Delhi).
Two asking-forms are visible in the material here. This UKPSC item gives a list of territory names to be sorted into 'inside Article 240' and 'outside' it.
The cited RPSC 2018 item took the same provision as sub-clause-to-territory matching: which letter of Article 240(1) names which Union territory.
In this stem the discriminating step is dating each name. 'Goa, Daman and Diu' is a name the Article carried until 1987, set beside names it carries now, so each has to be checked against statehood, merger and renaming.
RPSC_2018_PRE_Prelims2018_Q432018Same provision, Article 240, but asked as sub-clause-to-territory matching using the pre-2020 lettering in which (c) was Dadra and Nagar Haveli and (d) Daman and Diu. The UKPSC item instead asks which names are covered at all and turns on 'Goa, Daman and Diu' having ceased to be a Union territory in 1987.
RPSC_2016_PRE_Prelims2016_Q372016A state-reorganisation question, not an Article 240 one. Its statement 'Goa was separated from Daman and Diu' is the 1987 event that removes item 3 of the UKPSC stem; the RPSC item tests the reorganisation history itself, not the President's regulation power.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which of the following Union territories is/are named in Article 240(1) of the Constitution of India? 1. Chandigarh 2. Lakshadweep 3. Ladakh 4. Andaman and Nicobar Islands Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- (a)2 and 4 only
- (b)1, 2 and 4
- (c)2, 3 and 4
- (d)1, 2, 3 and 4
Answera — Article 240(1) names the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and Puducherry.Chandigarh (options b and d) is administered under Article 239 with Parliament legislating for it, and Ladakh (options c and d) was created by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 without any entry in Article 240.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Consider the following statements about the President's power under Article 240 of the Constitution: 1. A regulation made under Article 240 has the same force and effect as an Act of Parliament applicable to that Union territory. 2. The President may make regulations for Puducherry while its Legislative Assembly is functioning. 3. The National Capital Territory of Delhi is one of the territories named in Article 240. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- (a)1 only
- (b)1 and 2 only
- (c)2 and 3 only
- (d)1, 2 and 3
Answera — Statement 1 restates Article 240(2). Statement 2 fails because the first proviso bars regulations for Puducherry from the first meeting of its Legislature, with the power reviving during dissolution or suspension; so options b and d fall.Statement 3 fails because Delhi is governed by Article 239AA and is absent from Article 240; so options c and d fall.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The words 'Goa, Daman and Diu' in Article 240(1) of the Constitution were replaced by 'Daman and Diu' as a consequence of:
- (a)the Constitution (Twelfth Amendment) Act, 1962
- (b)the Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act, 1987
- (c)the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Act, 2019
- (d)the Pondicherry (Alteration of Name) Act, 2006
Answerb — The 1987 Reorganisation Act made Goa a State on 30 May 1987 and amended Article 240 so that the entry read 'Daman and Diu'.Option a is the amendment that inserted 'Goa, Daman and Diu' in the first place. Option c is the later 2019 Act that merged 'Dadra and Nagar Haveli' with 'Daman and Diu' into a single entry. Option d did one thing: it renamed Pondicherry as Puducherry.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Under which Article of the Constitution can the Administrator of the Union territory of Puducherry promulgate an ordinance when its Legislature is not in session?
- (a)Article 239A
- (b)Article 239B
- (c)Article 240
- (d)Article 239AA
Answerb — Article 239B gives the Administrator of a Union territory that has a Legislature under Article 239A, such as Puducherry, the power to promulgate ordinances during recess.Article 239A (option a) is the enabling provision for creating that Legislature. Article 240 (option c) is the President's regulation power. Article 239AA (option d) is the special scheme for Delhi.