Schedules of Indian Constitution
| Schedule | Features of Schedule |
|---|---|
| First Schedule | State and Union Territory Terrestrial Jurisdiction (28 states and 8 union territories) |
| Second Schedule | Salary, Allowances, Privileges of the Constitutional Post Holders |
| Third Schedule | Oath and Affirmation: Oath is administered by people who are believers of God and affirmation is administered by an atheist. It includes all of the ministers of the union and state, all of the candidates consisting of elections for MPs, MLAs, etc. |
| Fourth Schedule | Allocation of seats in Rajya Sabha. |
| Fifth Schedule | Administration of Schedule Areas: Preponderance of Tribal Population is subject to the special governance mechanism there. For Schedule Areas those areas in India which have been given adequate protection here, a Tribal Advisory Council exists. |
| Sixth Schedule | Tribal Area Administration: The most vulnerable and culturally distinctive exist in these areas, only present in four states, and six scheduled statuses have been given to them. Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram. here autonomous district councils are there. |
| Seventh Schedule | Federal List: subjects have been classified for legislation. There is the Union list, the State list, and the Concurrent list. - Union list contains 97 matters. Now it is 100. - State list: 66 reduced to 61. - Concurrent list: 47 increased to 52. |
| Eight Schedule | Official Languages: when the Constitution of India was made, originally 14 languages are part of the schedule: - Urdu - Sanskrit - Gujarati - Punjabi - Bengali - Malayalam - Kashmiri - Kannada - Udiya - Telugu - Hindi - Assamese 8 more languages got added: - Sindhi by the 21st Constitution Amendment Act 1967 - Kanki, Manipuri, Nepali by the 71st Constitution Amendment Act 1992 - Bodo, Dongri, Santheli and Methili by the 92nd Constitution Amendment Act 2003 |
| Ninth Schedule | Zamdari and Land Allocation: This was added to the Constitution by the First Constitutional Amendment Act in 1951. The rationale and objective of doing this amendment was to dilute the effect of the Right to Property, which was considered to be one of the hinderance development aspirations for New India that postulate in the interest of public that estate and property can be acquired. |
| Tenth Schedule | 52 Constitution Amendment Act 1985. This was added to the Constitution to prevent the Gayaram tendency (i.e. unholy defection disregarding the mandate of the people). |
| Eleventh Schedule | Panchayati Raj and Administration: It was added in the Constitution by the 73rd Constitution Amendment Act 1992. The purpose was to ensure decentralization of power and establishment of grass-root level democracy in the rural area. |
| Twelveth Schedule | Municipality and Administration: Similarly the Panchayati Raj in rural areas. In an urban area we have a municipality. |
- Union list: those lists where the Union legislature is empowered to make laws.
- State list: those lists where the State legislature (i.e. the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council) can make laws.
- Concurrent list: those lists where both the Union legislature and the State legislature can make laws. However if there is a dispute between the Union law and the State law made upon the concurrent list, it is the Union law that will prevail over the State law.
- If there is a matter that is nowhere given, neither in the union list nor in the state list nor in the concrete land, it will keep under the residual list. The residual power is in the center, that is, the union.