# White Paper on Indian States (1950)/Part 5/Provincially-merged States/Dangs and Vatrak Kantha Thana Estates

​103. The Dangs and certain estates formerly included in Vatrak Kantha Thana of the old Baroda Western India and Gujarat States Agency which covered an area of 870 square miles with a population of 48,498 became ​part of the Bombay Province under the Governor-General's Order No. 127-P, dated 19th January, 1948 (Appendix XV).
APPENDIX XV
MINISTRY OF STATES
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 19th January 1948
No. 127-P.—The following Order of the Governor General is published for general information:—
THE BOMBAY (ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AND ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES) ORDER, 1947.
WHEREAS by section 290 of the Government of India Act, 1935, as adapted by the India (Provisional Constitution) Order, 1947, it is provided that the Governor-General may by order increase the area, and alter the boundaries, of any Province and make such provisions as the Governor-General may deem necessary or proper for any supplementary, incidental or consequential matters;
AND WHEREAS it is expedient that certain areas outside the Dominion of India should be included therein and made part of the Province of Bombay;
AND WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of the said section 290 the Governor-General has ascertained the views of the Government of the Province of Bombay both with respect of the proposal to make the order and with respect to the provisions to be inserted therein;
NOW THEREFORE in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor-General is pleased to make the following order:—
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Bombay (Enlargement of Area and Alteration of Boundaries) Order, 1947.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. (1) The areas specified in the succeeding paragraph are hereby included in the territories of the Dominion of India.
(2) The areas referred to in the preceding paragraph are:
(a) the areas comprised in the Estates which on the first day of July, 1947, were included in the Vatrak Kantha thana of the Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency and were known by the following names:—
(b) the area known as Dangs.
​3. The said areas shall form part of the Province of Bombay and the boundaries of that Province shall be so altered as to comprise within them the said areas.
4. (1) The areas comprised in the Estates of Ged, Polajpur and Morvad shall form part of the district of Ahmedabad, the areas comprised in the Estates of Koprupur, Mahisa, Porda and Dana shall form part of the district of Kaira, and the said areas shall be administered accordingly.
(2) All enactments in force in any of the aforesaid districts, and all notifications, orders, schemes, rules, forms and bye-laws issued, made or prescribed under such enactments and in force in any of the aforesaid districts, shall extend to and be in force in the areas included in that district by the preceding paragraph.
5. (1) The area known as the Dangs shall for the time being form a separate district of the Province of Bombay and be administered accordingly.
(2) The Governor may, by order notified in the official Gazette of the Province, make such provision as appears to him to be necessary or expedient,
(3) any order made under this Article may be made so as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than the date of the commencement of this Order.
(4) Any order made under this Article shall be subject to the same powers of repeal and amendment as laws of the Provincial Legislature.
(5) No order shall be made by the Governor under this Article after the expiration of six months from the date of the commencement of this Order.
MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA, Governor General of India.
C. C. DESAI, Addl. Secy.