Admission or establishment of new States
included in editionWhat does this mean?
Parliament can admit or establish a new State and decide the terms. This concerns adding a State to the Union, rather than only redrawing the boundaries of an existing one.
The country's territorial framework: what India consists of and how States can be admitted, created or reorganised.
Why is this provision here?
It gives the Union a constitutional route for admitting or establishing States without pretending the existing territorial map can never change.
This Article number belongs to the original constitutional framework, but its present wording may include later amendments or substitutions. A provision-specific original Assembly debate has not been verified here. The explanation of function above is editorial inference from the text, not an attributed single motive of the framers. The original draft-making archive is a research resource, not proof of a particular historical reason.
The explanation of purpose is an editorial reading of the provision. A drafting motive is attributed only where a linked historical source supports it.
Limits, exceptions & reading carefully
Educational summary of the linked source text. Exceptions, provisos, implementing laws and applicable judgments must be read before applying it to a real case.
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Extracted from the Legislative Department’s May 2026 edition. Page footnotes may refer to neighbouring provisions; check their markers in the PDF. Inclusion in this edition does not by itself establish commencement or judicial effect.