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1st to 94th constitutional amendments
AMENDMENT NO |
YEAR |
PARTICULARS |
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| 1st | 1951 | Amended Art. 19 – New grounds of restriction. Inserted Arts. 31A and 31B and 9th Schedule – Protection to land reform laws. | ||
| 2nd | 1952 | Re-adjusted the scale or representation of election to the Lok Sabha. | ||
| 3rd | 1954 | Substituted Entry 33 of List III (Concurrent List) of 7th Schedule to correspond to Art. 369. | ||
| 4th | 1955 | Amended Ars. 31(2), 31A, 305. Six Acts included in 9th Schedule. | ||
| 5th | 1955 | Amended Art. 3 – Formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States. | ||
| 6th | 1956 | Amended Arts. 269, 286 – Entry 92A added to the Union List of 7th Schedule. | ||
| 7th | 1956 | To give effect to the recommendation of the State Re-organisation Commission. | ||
| 8th | 1960 | Amended Art. 34 – Extending the period of reservation of seats and special representation for SC/ST. | ||
| 9th | 1960 | To effect the transfer of certain territories to Pakistan in view of Supreme Court judgment in “Berubari union Case”. | ||
| 10th | 1961 | Amended Art. 240 and 1st Schedule – Included areas of Dadra and Nagar Haveli as U.T. | ||
| 11th | 1961 | Amended Arts. 66, 71. | ||
| 12th | 1962 | Amended Art. 240 – Included Goa, Daman and Diu as a U.T. | ||
| 13th | 1962 | Amended Art. 371A – Special provision with respect to the State of Nagaland. | ||
| 14th | 1962 | Amended 1st Schedule – Included Pondicherry as a U.T. | ||
| 15th | 1963 | Amended Art. 226 – Power of High Courts to issue certain Writs. | ||
| 16th | 1963 | Amended Art. 19 – Protection of certain rights regarding freedom of speech, etc. | ||
| 17th | 1964 | Amended Art. 31A – Saving of laws providing for acquisition of estates, etc. | ||
| 18th | 1966 | Amended Art. 3 – Formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States. | ||
| 19th | 1966 | Amended Art. 324 – Superintendence, direction and control of elections to be vested in an Election Commission. | ||
| 20th | 1966 | Added a new Art. 233A to validate certain appointments of Distt.Judges by Governor of U.P. | ||
| 21st | 1967 | Amended 8th Schedule – Included Sindhi language. | ||
| 22nd | 1969 | Enacted to facilitate the formation of a new autonomous State of Meghalaya within State of Assam. | ||
| 23rd | 1969 | Amended Art. 334 – Extending the period of restriction of seats and special representation for SC/ST. | ||
| 24th | 1971 | Amended Arts. 13 and 368 in the wake of Supreme Court verdict in “Golakhnath’s Case”. | ||
| 25th | 1971 | Further amended Art. 31 in the wake of “Bank Nationalisation Case”. | ||
| 26th | 1971 | Abolished the privy and privileges of the former rulers of Indian States in the wake of S.C. verdict in “Madhav Rao’s Case”. | ||
| 27th | 1971 | Inserted a new Art. 239B – Power of administrator to promulgate Ordinances during recess of Legislature. | ||
| 28th | 1972 | Abolished the Special privileges of the members of I.C.S. | ||
| 29th | 1972 | Amended 9th Schedule – Included two Kerala enactments on land reforms. | ||
| 30th | 1972 | Amended Art. 133 – Appellate jurisdiction of Supreme Court in appeals from High Courts in regard to Civil matters. | ||
| 31st | 1973 | Inter alia raised the upper limit for the representation of States in Lok Sabha from 500 to 525 and reduced the same for U.T. from 25 to 20. | ||
| 32nd | 1973 | Inter alia provided for the Constitution of an Administrative Tribunal. | ||
| 33rd | 1974 | Amended Arts. 101 & 190. | ||
| 34th | 1974 | Amended 9th Schedule – Included twenty more land tenure and land reform laws enacted by various State Legislatures. | ||
| 35th | 1974 | Amended Arts. 80 & 81 – New Art. 2A and 10th Schedule added. | ||
| 36th | 1975 | Art. 2A and 10th Schedule omitted. Art. 80 & 81 suitably amended. Amended 1st Schedule – included State of Sikkim. | ||
| 37th | 1975 | Amended Art. 240. | ||
| 38th | 1975 | Amended Arts. 123, 213 & 352. | ||
| 39th | 1975 | Certain Central enactments included in 9th Schedule. Disputes relating to the election of President, Vice-President, Prime Minister and Speaker to be determined by such authority as may be determined by Parliamentary Law. | ||
| 40th | 1976 | Provided for vesting in the Union of all mines, minerals and other things of value laying in the ocean within the territorial waters and limits thereof. Some enactments added to 9th Schedule. | ||
| 41st | 1976 | Amended Art. 316 – Appointment and term of office of members. | ||
| 42nd | 1976 | Amended Art. 226 – Creation of Administrative and other Tribunals – to give effect to the recommendation of “Swaran Singh Committee”. | ||
| 43rd | 1977 | Omitted Arts. 31D, 32A, 131A, 144A, 226A, 228A. | ||
| 44th | 1978 | Amended Arts. 21, 22, 132, 134, 352. Inserted 134A. | ||
| 45th | 1980 | Extending the period of reservation of seats in Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies for Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes. | ||
| 46th | 1982 | Amended Arts. 269, 286, 366. | ||
| 47th | 1984 | Certain Land Reform Acts included in 9th Schedule. | ||
| 48th | 1984 | Amended Art. 356(5) in respect of extension of President’s Rule in Punjab. | ||
| 49th | 1984 | Provisions of 6th Schedule applicable to tribal areas of ‘Tripura’ – Constitutional security to autonomous Distt. Council. | ||
| 50th | 1984 | Amended Art. 33 – Power of Parliament to modify the rights conferred by this part in their application to forces, etc. | ||
| 51st | 1984 | Amended Arts. 330, 332 – Reservation of seats for Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes. | ||
| 52nd | 1985 | Anti-defection law with respect to splits in and merger of political parties. | ||
| 53rd | 1986 | Inserted Art. 371G – Mizoram. | ||
| 54th | 1986 | Amended Part D of 2nd Schedule, Arts. 125 & 221. | ||
| 55th | 1986 | Inserted Art. 371H – Andhra Pradesh. | ||
| 56th | 1987 | Formation of State of Goa – New U.T. of Daman and Diu. | ||
| 57th | 1987 | Amended Arts. 330 & 332 | ||
| 58th | 1987 | President authorized for publication of authoritative text of the Constitution and ever amendment made therein in English and Hindi. | ||
| 59th | 1987 | Amended Arts. 352, 356(5), 358, 359 | ||
| 60th | 1988 | Amended Arts. 276(2) – Taxes on professions, trades, callings and employments. | ||
| 61st | 1989 | Amended Art. 326. | ||
| 62nd | 1989 | Amended Art. 334 | ||
| 63rd | 1989 | Omitted provision to Arts. 356(5) & 359A – Proclamation of Emergency in Punjab. | ||
| 64th | 1990 | Amended Clauses (4) and (5) of Art. 356 – Extension of Proclamation in Punjab. | ||
| 65th | 1990 | Amended Art. 338. | ||
| 66th | 1990 | Included in 9th Schedule – 55 State Acts relating to land reforms and ceiling on agricultural land holdings. | ||
| 67th | 1990 | Amended Art. 356(4) – Extension of Proclamation in Punjab. | ||
| 68th | 1991 | Amended Art. 356(4) – Extension of Proclamation in Punjab. | ||
| 69th | 1991 | To give effect to recommendations of the Committee – Administration of Delhi. | ||
| 70th | 1992 | Explanation inserted in Art. 54 – reference to ‘State’ in Art. 54, 55 to include N.C.T. of Delhi and U.T. of Pondicherry. | ||
| 71st | 1992 | Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali languages included in 8th Schedule. | ||
| 72nd | 1992 | Amended Art. 332 – Reservation of seats for SC/ST in Legislative Assemblies of States. | ||
| 73rd | 1992 | Inserted ‘Part IX’ – The Panchayats Art. 243 to Art. 243O, Art. 280(3)(bb). | ||
| 74th | 1992 | Inserted ‘Part IXA’ – The Municipalities Art. 243P to Art. 243ZG, Art. 280(3)(c). | ||
| 75th | 1993 | Tribunals to be set up for rent, its regulation and control of tenancy issues under Art. 323B. | ||
| 76th | 1994 | Item 257A (Tamil Nadu Act 45 of 1994) is added in the Ninth Schedule. | ||
| 77th | 1995 | Amended Art. 16 – Provision for reservation in matters of promotion for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to any class or classes of posts in the services under the State. | ||
| 78th | 1995 | Items 258 to 284 added in the Ninth Schedule. | ||
| 79th | 1999 | Amended Art. 334 – Reservation of seats SCs/STs andrepresentation of the Anglo-Indian Community in Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly extended to 60 years. | ||
| 80th | 2000 | Arts. 269 and 270 amended and Art. 272 omitted. | ||
| 81st | 2000 | In Art. 16 new clause (4B) inserted – unfilled reserved vacancies of a year not to be considered with the vacancies of the year in which they are being filled up for determining the ceiling of 50% reservation total number of vacancies of that year. | ||
| 82nd | 2000 | Nothing in Art. 335 shall prevent in making of any of provision in favour of the members of Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes for relaxation in qualifying marks in nay examination lowering the standard of evaluation, for reservation in matters of promotion to any class or classes of service or posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of a State. | ||
| 83rd | 2000 |
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| 84th | 2001 | Amended Arts. 55, 81, 82, 170, 330 and 332 by substituting the figures “2000” by “2026”. | ||
| 85th | 2001 | Amended Art. 16 clause (4A) | ||
| 86th | 2002 | Amendment Arts. 21A, 45 and 51A. Providing for free education, early childhood care, etc. | ||
| 87th | 2003 | Amended articles 81, 82, 170 and 330, substituting 2001 for 1991 as the census year. | ||
| 88th | 2003 | Inserted Article 268A and amended article 270 and 7th Schedule – made provision for service tax. | ||
| 89th | 2003 | Amended article 338 and inserted new article 338A – provided separate National Commissions for SCs and STs. | ||
| 90th | 2003 | Amended article 32 provides the protection of rights of non-tribals and the existing representation of STs and non-STs in Assam Legislative Assemblies from Bodo Territorial Council Areas. | ||
| 91th | 2003 | Restricted the number of ministers in Centre and States upto 15% of the total number of members in Lok Sabha and State Assemblies respectively and disqualification of members of political party for appointment on remunerative political post on ground of defection. | ||
| 92th | 2003 | Amended 8th schedule – Added 4 more languages viz., Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali. | ||
| 93th | Amended Art. 15 clause (5). | |||
| 94th | 2006 | Amended Art. 164 – Subs. ‘Chattisgarh, Jharkhand’ for ‘Bihar’. |
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