List of all Schedules in the Constitution of India

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List of all Schedules in the Constitution of India

Currently, the constitution of India has 12 schedules which were 8 originally. The First Amendment Act added the 9th schedule in the constitution. The Sixth Schedule of the constitution is related to Provisions for the administration of Tribal Area in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, and Ladakh.


Indian Constitution

The 35th constitutional Amendment Act added the 10th schedule in the constitution in 1974 regarding the “associate Status” of the Sikkim. Later 36th amendment act admitted Sikkim as state of India. A New 10th schedule was added by the 52nd amendment act 1985 in context with the “Anti-Defection” Law.


Followings are the schedules in Constitution of India


First Schedule

List of States & Union Territories


Second Schedule

Contains provisions as to the President, Governor, Speaker, Deputy Speaker of the House of the people, chairman and deputy chairman of the council of states and the speaker of the legislative assembly and chairman and deputy chairman of the legislative council of a state, Salary of President, Governors, Chief Judges, Judges of High Court and Supreme court, Comptroller and Auditor General


Third Schedule

Forms of Oaths and affirmations


Fourth Schedule

Allocate seats for each state of India in Rajya Sabha


Fifth Schedule

Administration and control of scheduled areas and tribes


Sixth Schedule

Provisions for the administration of Tribal Area in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura,  Mizoram and Ladakh.


Seventh Schedule

Gives allocation of powers and functions between Union & States. It contains 3 lists

Union List (For central Govt) 97 Subjects.

States List (Powers of State Govt) 66 subjects

Concurrent List (Both Union & States) 47 subjects.


Eighth Schedule

List of 22 languages of India recognised by Constitution

1. Assamese         2. Bengali         3. Gujarati        4. Hindi   5. Kannada     6. Kashmiri 7. Manipuri   8. Malayalam    9. Konkani      10. Marathi     11. Nepali         12. Oriya

13. Punjabi          14. Sanskrit      15. Sindhi         16. Tamil        17. Telugu         18. Urdu

19. Santhali         20. Bodo           21. Maithili.       22. Dogri


          

Sindhi was added in 1967 by 21 Amendment

Konkani, Manipuri ad Nepali were added in 1992 by 71 amendment Santhali, Maithili, Bodo and Dogri were added in 2003 by 92 amendment


Ninth Schedule

Added by the first amendment in 1951. Contains acts & orders related to land tenure, land tax, railways, industries.{Right of property, not a fundamental right now}


Tenth Schedule

Added by 52nd amendment in 1985. Contains provisions of disqualification of grounds of defection


Eleventh Schedule

By 73rd amendment in 1992. It contains provisions of Panchayati Raj.


Twelfth Schedule

By 74th amendment in 1992. It contains provisions of Municipal Corporation.

The Ninth Schedule of the Constitution is beyond judicial review. It means even the Supreme Court is not entitled to strike down any subject put in this schedule.


The Ninth Schedule of the constitution has a list of central and state laws that cannot be challenged in courts. Some Political Parties are demanding that reservation should be put in the ninth schedule. Currently, 284 such laws are shielded from judicial review.



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