One Administrator for both halves: the office that heads the merged Union Territory

Background

The UT Administration of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is headed by Administrator Praful Patel, whose office is named as Administrator on the Union Territory's own website and on the Diu district website. He took charge as Administrator of Daman and Diu on 29 August 2016 and was appointed Administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli on 30 December 2016, and the two Union Territories were merged into one on 26 January 2020. Earlier he was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Himmatnagar in Gujarat from 2007 to 2012 and Minister of State for Home Affairs in Gujarat from 2010, holding Police Housing, Border Security, Civil Defence, Home Guards, Gram Rakshak Dal, Jail and Prohibition and Excise. The administration's own list of former Administrators of the territory runs from K. S. Baidwan in 1992 to Vikram Dev Dutt in 2016.