Govt Redraws Map Of India Showing Union Territories Of Jammu And Kashmir, Ladakh

The home ministry issued a notification on Saturday detailing the boundaries of the newly created union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Along with the notification the government also released a new political map of India – one that now includes areas previously labeled as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The order comes two days after the nation’s newest union territories were formally created and received their first Lieutenant Governors; former union expenditure secretary Girish Chandra Murmu was sworn in as the first Lieutenant-Governor of Jammu and Kashmir and former Defence Secretary Radha Krishna Mathur was sworn in as the first Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh.
According to the notification, the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir will constitute all districts of the former state except Kargil and Leh, which will form the union territory of Ladakh.
In 1947, the former state of Jammu and Kashmir had the following 14 districts – Kathua, Jammu, Udhampur, Reasi, Anantnag, Baramulla, Poonch, Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, Leh and Ladakh, Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat, Chilies, and Tribal Territory.