Thursday, April 04, 2013

Schedules in Indian Constitution

From: IAS (Indian Administrative Service Aspirant's blog)

First Schedule: List of State and Union Territories.

Second Schedule: 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 area and tribes

Sixth Schedule: Provisions for administration of Tribal Area in Asom, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

Seventh Schedule: Allocation of power and function between Union and States. It contains three lists:
  • Union List (for Central Government): 98 subjects
  • State List (for State Government): 62 subjects
  • Concurrent List (both Union and State): 52 subjects
Eighth Schedule: List of 22 languages of India recognized by constitution. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telegu, and Urdu were in list from begining. Sindhi was added in 1967 by 21st amendment; Konkani, Manipuri, and Nepali were added in 1992 by 71st amendment; Santhali, Maithili, Bodo and Dogri were added in 2003 by 92nd amendment.

Ninth Schedule: Added by 1st amendment in 1951. Contains acts and orders related to land tenure, land tax, railways, industries.

Tenth Schedule: Added by 52nd amendment in 1985. Contains provisions of disqualification on grounds of  defection.

Eleventh Schedule: Added by 73rd amendment in 1992. Contains provisions of Panchayati Raj.

Twelfth Schedule: Added by 74th amendment in 1992. Contains provisions of Municipal Corporation. 
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