(ARTICLE - 3) UNION and ITS TERRITORIES

 ▪︎UNION and ITS TERRITORIES.

📌 PARLIAMENT’S POWER TO REORGANISE THE STATES. (ARTICLE - 3)

🔸️ Article 3 authorises the Parliament to: 

(a) form a new state by separation of territory from any state or by uniting two or more states or parts of states or by uniting any territory to a part of any state; 

(b) increase the area of any state; 

(c) diminish the area of any state; 

(d) alter the boundaries of any state; and 

(e) alter the name of any state. 

🔸️ However, Article 3 lays down two conditions in this regard: one, a bill contemplating the above changes can be introduced in the Parliament only with the prior recommendation of the President; 

🔸️ and two, before recommending the bill, the President has to refer the same to the state legislature concerned for expressing its views within a specified period.