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What is the difference in State, Union Territory and Union Territory like Delhi

How States, Union Territories and Union Territory like Delhi differ administratively. Every day we hear the confliction in the administration of Delhi, let's understand the difference in administration of a state, a Union Territory and a union territory with special status like Delhi. The seventh schedule of the Indian Constitution contain three lists - Union list, State list and Concurrent list. This is how the constitution divide power between centre and State. Centre can make laws on all the subjects in Union list, Concurrent list, and states can make laws on all the subjects in state list and Concurrent list. So centre and State both can make laws on subjects in Concurrent list, but in case of conflict, the central law will prevail. The residuary subjects ( subjects which are not mentioned in any of the three lists) are given to the centre. Governor is the head of a state and not an agent of President. But an administrator of a union territory is an agent of the president and n...