2025-01-09
25 Parts, 448 articles, 12 schedules, 5 appendices, and 105+ Amendments
Part | Subject | Articles |
Part 1 | The Union and Its Territory | 1 to 4 |
Part 2 | Citizenship | 5 to 11 |
Part 3 | Fundamental Rights | 12 to 35 |
Part 4 | DPSP | 36 to 51 |
Part 4A | Fundamental Duties | 51A (inserted 42nd Amendments - 1976) |
Part 5 | Union/Central Government | 52 to 151 |
President | 52 to 72 | |
Council of Ministers and PM | 74 to 75 | |
Union Parliament | 79 to 122 | |
The Union Judiciary | 124 to 147 | |
CAG | 148 to 151 | |
Part 6 | State Government | 152 to 237 |
Governor | 153 to 162 | |
Council of Ministers and CM's | 163 to 164 | |
The State Legislature | 168 to 212 | |
High Courts | 214 to 232 | |
Part 7 | No Part 7; it was related to States in the B part of the first schedule, was repleaded by 7th Amendment | |
Part 8 | The Union territories | 239 to 242 |
Part 9 | Panchayati Raj System (PRI) | 243 to 243-O |
Part 9A | The Municipalities | 243-P to 243-ZG |
Part 10 | The scheduled and Trible Areas | 244 to 244-A |
Part 11 | Relations between Union and State | 245 to 263 |
Part 14 | Services Under the Union and the States | 308 to 323 |
Part 15 | Election- Election Commission | 324 to 329-A |
Part 17 | Official Language (Hindi) | 343 to 351 |
Part 18 | Emergency Provisions | 352 to 360 |
National Emergency | 352 | |
State Emergency | 356 | |
Financial Emergency | 360 | |
Part 20 | Amendment of the Constitution | 368 |
1st | State and UTs |
2nd | Salaries of presidents and other high offices of Union of India |
3rd | Forms of Oaths or Affirmations for union/state ministers, legislature (MP/MLA), candidate for election, Judges of SC/HC, CAG etc. (Forms of Oaths or Affirmations for president, vice president, governor are in in 60, 69, 159 respectively) |
4th | Allocation of seats in the Rajya Sabha to the states and UTs |
5th | Administration of scheduled areas and scheduled tribes - 10 states |
6th | Administration of tribal areas in the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Mizoram |
7th | Division of Powers between the Union and the States. Union list contains 100 subjects (originally 97), state list 61 contains subjects (originally 66), and concurrent list contains 52 subjects (originally 47) |
8th | Languages recognized by the Constitution. Originally, 14, presently 22 recognized languages |
9th | Acts and Regulations (originally 13 but presently 282) related to land reforms and other matters which cannot be challenged in court. Inserted by 1st Amendment, 1951. For implementation of land reforms after abolition of Zamindari System. Now, it has also come under Judicial Review. |
10th | Anti-Defection laws - disqualification of the MPs/MLAs on the ground of defection added by the 52nd Amendment Act of 1985 |
11th | Panchayati Raj System, added by the 73rd Amendment Act of 1992 |
12th | Municipalities, added by the 74th Amendment Act of 1992 |