List of amendments of the Constitution of India
List

List of amendments of the Constitution of India

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No.	Amendments	Enforced since	Objectives	Prime Minister	President

1	15, 19, 85, 87, 174, 176, 341, 342, 372 and 376. Insert articles 31A and 31B. Insert schedule 9.	10th May 1951	Added special provision for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes or for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.	Jawaharlal Nehru	Rajendra Prasad

2	Amend article 81(1)(b).	1 May 1953	Removed the upper population limit for a parliamentary constituency by amending Article 81(1)(b).

3	Amend schedule 7.	22 February 1955	Re-enacted entry 33 of the Concurrent List in the Seventh Schedule with relation to include trade and commerce in, and the production, supply and distribution of four classes of essential commodities, viz., foodstuffs, including edible oil seeds and oils; cattle fodder, including oilcakes and other concentrates; raw cotton whether ginned or unginned, and cotton seeds; and raw jute.

4	Amend articles 31, 35 band 305. Amend schedule 9.	27 April 1955	Restrictions on property rights and inclusion of related bills in Schedule 9 of the constitution.

5	Amend article 3.	24 December 1955	Empowered the President to prescribe a time limit for a State Legislature to convey its views on proposed Central laws relating to the formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States.

6	Amend articles 269 and 286. Amend schedule 7.	11 September 1956	Amend the Union and State Lists with respect to raising of taxes.

7	Amend articles 1, 3, 49, 80, 81, 82, 131, 153, 158, 168, 170, 171, 216, 217, 220, 222, 224, 230, 231 and 232.	1 November 1956	Reorganization of states on linguistic lines, abolition of Class A, B, C, D states and introduction of Union Territories.

8	Amend article 334.	5 January 1960	Extended the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies till 1970.

9	Amend schedule 1.	28 December 1960	Minor adjustments to territory of Indian Union consequent to agreement with Pakistan for settlement of disputes by demarcation of border villages, etc.

10	Amend article 240. Amend schedule 1.	11 August 1961	Incorporation of Dadra, Nagar and Haveli as a Union Territory, consequent to acquisition from Portugal.

11	Amend articles 66 and 71.	19 December 1961	Election of Vice President by Electoral College consisting of members of both Houses of Parliament, instead of election by a Joint Sitting of Parliament.

12	Amend article 240. Amend schedule 1.	20 December 1961	Incorporation of Goa, Daman and Diu as a Union Territory, consequent to acquisition from Portugal.

13	Amend article 170. Insert new article 371A.	1 December 1963	Formation of State of Nagaland, with special protection under Article 371A.	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

14	Amend articles 81 and 240. Insert article 239A. Amend schedules 1 and 4.	28 December 1962	Incorporation of Pondicherry into the Union of India and creation of Legislative Assemblies for Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Manipur and Goa.

15	Amend articles 124, 128, 217, 222, 224, 226, 297, 311 and 316. Insert article 224A. Amend schedule 7.	5 October 1963	Raise retirement age of High court judges from 60 to 62 and other minor amendments for rationalizing interpretation of rules regarding judges etc.

16	Amend articles 19, 84 and 173. Amend schedule 3.	5 October 1963	Make it obligatory for seekers of public office to swear their allegiance to the Indian Republic and prescribe the various obligtory templates.

17	Amend article 31A. Amend schedule 9.	20 June 1964	To secure the constitutional validity of acquisition of Estates and place land acquisition laws in Schedule 9 of the constitution.

18	Amend article 3.	27 August 1966	Technical Amendment to include Union Territories in Article 3 and hence permit reorganisation of Union Territories.	Lal Bahadur Shastri

19	Amend article 324.	11 December 1966	Abolish Election Tribunals and enable trial of election petitions by regular High Courts.

20	Insert article 233A.	22 December 1966	Indemnify & validate judgments, decrees, orders and sentences passed by judges and to validate the appointment, posting, promotion and transfer of judges barring a few who were not eligible for appointment under article 233.

21	Amend schedule 8.	10 April 1967	Include Sindhi as an Official Language.	Indira Gandhi

22	Amend article 275. Insert articles 244A and 371B.	25 September 1969	Provision to form Autonomous states within the State of Assam.	V. V. Giri

23	Amend articles 330, 332, 333 and 334.	23 January 1970	Discontinued reservation of seats for the Scheduled Tribes in Nagaland, both in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assembly and stipulated that not more than one Anglo-Indian could be nominated by the Governor to any State Legislative Assembly.

24	Amend articles 13 and 368.	5 November 1971	Enable parliament to dilute fundamental rights through amendments to the constitution.

25	Amend article 31. Insert article 31C.	20 April 1972	Restrict property rights and compensation in case the state takes over private property. However, the Supreme Court quashed a part of Article 31C, to the extent it took away the power of judicial review.

26	Amend article 366. Insert article 363A. Remove articles 291 and 362.	28 December 1971	Abolition of privy purse paid to former rulers of princely states which were incorporated into the Indian Republic.

27	Amend articles 239A and 240. Insert articles 239B and 371C.	15 February 1972	Reorganization of Mizoram into a Union Territory with a legislature and council of ministers.

28	Insert article 312A. Remove article 314.	29 August 1972	Rationalize Civil Service rules to make it uniform across those appointed prior to Independence and post independence.

29	Amend schedule 9.	9 June 1972	Place land reform acts and amendments to these act under Schedule 9 of the constitution.

30	Amend article 133.	27 February 1973	Change the basis for appeals in Supreme Court of India in case of Civil Suits from value criteria to one involving substantial question of law.

31	Amend articles 81, 330 and 332.	17 October 1973	Increase size of Parliament from 525 to 545 seats. Increased seats going to the new states formed in North East India and minor adjustment consequent to 1971 Delimitation exercise.

32	Amend article 371. Insert articles 371D and 371E. Amend schedule 7.	1 July 1974	Protection of regional rights in Telangana and Andhra regions of State of Andhra Pradesh.

33	Amend articles 101 and 190.	19 May 1974	Prescribes procedure for resignation by members of parliament and state legislatures and the procedure for verification and acceptance of resignation by house speaker.

34	Amend schedule 9.	7 September 1974	Place land reform acts and amendments to these act under Schedule 9 of the constitution.	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

35	Amend articles 80 and 81. Insert article 2A. Insert schedule 10.	1 March 1975	Terms and Conditions for the Incorporation of Sikkim into the Union of India.

36	Amend articles 80 and 81. Insert article 371F. Remove article 2A. Amend schedules 1 and 4. Remove schedule 10.	26 April 1975	Formation of Sikkim as a State within the Indian Union.

37	Amend articles 239A and 240.	3 May 1975	Formation of Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly.

38	Amend articles 123, 213, 239B, 352, 356, 359 and 360.	1 June 1975	Enhances the powers of President and Governors to pass ordinances.

39	Amend articles 71 and 329. Insert article 329A. Amend schedule 9.	10 August 1975	Amendment designed to negate the judgement of Allahabad High Court invalidating Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's election to parliament. Amendment placed restrictions on judicial scrutiny of post of Prime Minister.

40	Amend article 297. Amend schedule 9.	27 May 1976	Enable Parliament to make laws with respect to Exclusive Economic Zone and vest the mineral wealth with Union of India. Place land reform & other acts and amendments to these act under Schedule 9 of the constitution.

41	Amend article 316.	7 September 1976	Raise Retirement Age Limit of Chairmen and Members of Joint Public Service Commissions and State Public Service Commissions from sixty to sixty two.

42	Amend articles 31, 31C, 39, 55, 74, 77, 81, 82, 83, 100, 102, 103, 105, 118, 145, 150, 166, 170, 172, 189, 191, 192, 194, 208, 217, 225, 226, 227, 228, 311, 312, 330, 352, 353, 356, 357, 358, 359, 366, 368 and 371F.	2 November 1976	Amendment passed during internal emergency by Indira Gandhi. Provides for curtailment of fundamental rights, imposes fundamental duties and changes to the basic structure of the constitution by making India a "Socialist Secular" Republic.

43	Amend articles 145, 226, 228 and 366. Remove articles 31D, 32A, 131A, 144A, 226A and 228A.	13 April 1978	Amendment passed after revocation of internal emergency in the Country. Repeals some of the more 'Anti-Freedom' amendments enacted through Amendment Bill 42.	Morarji Desai	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

44	Amend articles 19, 22, 30, 31A, 31C, 38, 71, 74, 77, 83, 103, 105, 123, 132, 133, 134, 139A, 150, 166, 172, 192, 194, 213, 217, 225, 226, 227, 239B, 329, 352, 356, 358, 359, 360 and 371F.	6 September 1978	Amendment passed after revocation of internal emergency in the Country. Provides for human rights safeguards and mechanisms to prevent abuse of executive and legislative authority.

45	Amend article 334.	25 January 1980	Extend reservation for SC / ST and nomination of Anglo Indian members in Parliament and State Assemblies for another ten years i.e.	Indira Gandhi

46	Amend articles 269, 286 and 366. Amend schedule 7.	2 February 1983	Amendment to negate judicial pronouncements on scope and applicability on Sales Tax.	Zail Singh

47	Amend schedule 9.	26 August 1984	Place land reform acts and amendments to these act under Schedule 9 of the constitution.

48	Amend article 356.	26 August 1984	Article 356 amended to permit President's rule up to two years in the state of Punjab.

49	Amend article 244. Amend schedules 5 and 6.	11 September 1984	Recognize Tripura as a Tribal State and enable the creation of a Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council.

50	Amend article 33.	11 September 1984	Technical Amendment to curtailment of Fundamental Rights as per Part III as prescribed in Article 33 to cover Security Personnel protecting property and communication infrastructure.

51	Amend articles 330 and 332.	29 April 1984	Provide reservation to Scheduled Tribes in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh in Loksabha, similarly for Meghalaya and Arunachal in their Legislative Assemblies.

52	Amend articles 101, 102, 190 and 191. Insert schedule 10.	15 February 1985	Anti Defection Law - Provide disqualification of members from parliament and assembly in case of defection from one party to other.	Rajiv Gandhi

53	Insert article 371G.	20 February 1986	Special provision with respect to the State of Mizoram.

54	Amend articles 125 and 221. Amend schedule 2.	1 April 1986	Increase the salary of Chief Justice of India & other Judges and to provide for determining future increases without the need for constitutional amendment.

55	Insert article 371H.	20 February 1987	Special powers to Governor consequent to formation of state of Arunachal Pradesh.

56	Insert article 371I.	30 May 1987	Transition provision to enable formation of state of Goa.

57	Amend article 332.	21 September 1987	Provide reservation to Scheduled Tribes in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assemblies.	R. Venkataraman

58	Insert article 394A. Amend part 22.	9 December 1987	Provision to publish authentic Hindi translation of constitution as on date and provision to publish authentic Hindi translation of future amendments.

59	Amend article 356. Insert article 359A.	30 March 1988	Article 356 amended to permit President's rule up to three years in the state of Punjab, Articles 352 and Article 359A amended to permit imposing emergency in state of Punjab or in specific districts of the state of Punjab.

60	Amend article 276.	20 December 1988	Profession Tax increased from a minimum of Rs. 250/- to a maximum of Rs. 2500/-.

61	Amend article 326.	28 March 1989	Reduce age for voting rights from 21 to 18.

62	Amend article 334.	20 December 1989	Extend reservation for SC / ST and nomination of Anglo Indian members in Parliament and State Assemblies for another ten years i.e.	V. P. Singh

63	Amend article 356. Remove article 359A.	6 January 1990	Emergency powers applicable to State of Punjab, accorded in Article 359A as per amendment 59 repealed.

64	Amend article 356.	16 April 1990	Article 356 amended to permit President's rule up to three years and six months in the state of Punjab.

65	Amend article 338.	12 March 1990	National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes formed and its statutory powers specified in The Constitution.

66	Amend schedule 9.	7 June 1990	Place land reform acts and amendments to these act under Schedule 9 of the constitution.

67	Amend article 356.	4 October 1990	Article 356 amended to permit President's rule up to four years in the state of Punjab.

68	Amend article 356.	12 March 1991	Article 356 amended to permit President's rule up to five years in the state of Punjab.

69	Insert articles 239AA and 239AB.	1 February 1990	To provide for a legislative assembly and council of ministers for Federal National Capital of Delhi. Delhi continues to be a Union Territory.	P. V. Narasimha Rao

70	Amend articles 54 and 239AA.	21 December 1991	Include National Capital of Delhi and Union Territory of Pondicherry in electoral college for Presidential Election.

71	Amend schedule 8.	31 August 1992	Include Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali as Official Languages.	Shankar Dayal Sharma

72	Amend article 332.	5 December 1992	Provide reservation to Scheduled Tribes in Tripura State Legislative Assembly.

73	Insert part 9.	24 April 1992	Statutory provisions for Panchyat Raj as third level of administration in villages.

74	Insert part 9A, amend article 280.	1 June 1992	Statutory provisions for Local Administrative bodies as third level of administration in urban areas such as towns and cities.

75	Amend article 323B.	15 May 1994	Provisions for setting up Rent Control Tribunals.

76	Amend schedule 9.	31 August 1994	Enable continuance of 69% reservation in Tamil Nadu by including the relevant Tamil Nadu Act under 9th Schedule of the constitution.

77	Amend article 16.	17 June 1995	A technical amendment to protect reservation to SC/ST Employees in promotions.

78	Amend schedule 9.	30 August 1995	Place land reform acts and amendments to these act under Schedule 9 of the constitution.

79	Amend article 334.	25 January 2000	Extend reservation for SC / ST and nomination of Anglo Indian members in Parliament and State Assemblies for another ten years i.e.	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	K. R. Narayanan

80	Amend articles 269 and 270. Remove article 272.	9 June 2000	Implement Tenth Finance Commission recommendation to simplify the tax structures by pooling and sharing all taxes between states and The Centre.

81	Amend article 16.	9 June 2000	Protect SC / ST reservation in filling backlog of vacancies.

82	Amend article 335.	8 September 2000	Permit relaxation of qualifying marks and other criteria in reservation in promotion for SC / ST candidates.

83	Amend article 243M.	8 September 2000	Exempt Arunachal Pradesh from reservation for Scheduled Castes in Panchayati Raj institutions.

84	Amend articles 55, 81, 82, 170, 330 and 332.	21 February 2002	Extend the usage of 1971 national census population figures for statewise distribution of parliamentary seats.

85	Amend article 16.	4 January 2002	A technical amendment to protect Consequential seniority in case of promotions of SC/ST Employees.

86	Amend articles 45 and 51A. Insert article 21A.	12 December 2002	Provides Right to Education until the age of fourteen and Early childhood care until the age of six.	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

87	Amend articles 81, 82, 170 and 330.	22 June 2003	Extend the usage of 2001 national census population figures for statewise distribution of parliamentary seats.

88	Amend article 270. Insert article 268A. Amend schedule 7.	15 January 2004	To extend statutory cover for levy and utilization of Service Tax.

89	Amend article 338. Insert article 338A.	28 September 2003	The National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes was bifurcated into The National Commission for Scheduled Castes and The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes.

90	Amend article 332.	28 September 2003	Reservation in Assam Assembly relating to Bodoland Territory Area.

91	Amend articles 75 and 164. Insert article 361B. Amend schedule 10.	1 January 2004	Restrict the size of council of ministers to 15% of legislative members & to strengthen Anti Defection laws.

92	Amend schedule 8.	7 January 2004	Include Bodo, Dogri, Santali and Maithali as official languages.

93	Amend article 15.	20 January 2006	To enable provision of reservation (27%) for other backward classes(OBC) in government as well as private educational institutions.	Manmohan Singh

94	Amend article 164.	12 June 2006	To provide for a Minister of Tribal Welfare in newly created Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh States including Madhya Pradesh, Orissa.

95	Amend article 334.	25 January 2010	To extend the reservation of seats for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and states assemblies from Sixty years to Seventy years.	Pratibha Patil

96	Amend schedule 8.	23 September 2011	Substituted "Odia" for "Oriya".

97	Amend Art 19 and added Part IXB.	12 January 2012	Added the words "or co-operative societies" after the word "or unions" in Article 19(l)(c) and insertion of article 43B i.e., Promotion of Co-operative Societies and added Part-IXB i.e., The Co-operative Societies.

98	To insert Article 371J in the Constitution	2 January 2013	To empower the Governor of Karnataka to take steps to develop the Hyderabad-Karnataka Region.	Pranab Mukherjee

99	Insertion of new articles 124A, 124B and 124C. Amendments to Articles 127, 128, 217, 222, 224A, 231.	13 April 2015	Formation of a National Judicial Appointments Commission. 16 State assemblies out of 29 States including Goa, Rajasthan, Tripura, Gujarat and Telangana ratified the Central Legislation, enabling the President of India to give assent to the bill.	Narendra Modi

100	Amendment of First Schedule to Constitution	1 August 2015	Exchange of certain enclave territories with Bangladesh and conferment of citizenship rights to residents of enclaves consequent to signing of Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) Treaty between India and Bangladesh.

101	Addition of articles 246A, 269A, 279A. Deletion of Article 268A.	1 July 2017	Introduced the Goods and Services Tax.

102	Addition of articles 338B, 342A. Modification of articles 338, 366.	11 August 2018	Constitutional status to National Commission for Backward Classes	Ram Nath Kovind

103	Amendment to Article 15 & 16	12 January 2019	A maximum of 10% Reservation for Economically Weaker Sections of citizens of classes other than the classes mentioned in clauses (4) and (5) of Article 15, i.e.

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Privy Purse was passed as the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India in 1971.
Privy Purse in India was passed as the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India in 1971.
Privy Purse was passed as the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India in 1971.

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final_sentence: Privy Purse in India was passed as the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India in 1971.
final_sentence: Privy Purse was passed as the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India in 1971.