Important Constitutional Amendments

First Amendment 1951 ·Added Ninth Schedule.

· Necessitated on account of reorganisation of States

Seventh Amendment 1956
on a linguistic basis.

· Extended special provisions for reservations of

seats for SCs, STs and Anglo-Indians in Lok Sabha
Eighth Amendment 1959
and Leg Assemblies for a period of 10 years from
1960 to 1970.

· Gave effect to transfer certain territories to Pakistan

The Ninth Amendment 1960
following the 1958 Indo-Pak agreement.

The Tenth Amendment 1961 · Incorporated Dadra & Nagar Haveli as a UT.

Twelfth Amendment 1962 · Incorporated Goa, Daman 7 Diu as a UT.

Thirteenth Amendment 1962 · Created Nagaland as a State.

·Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam, the former

Fourteenth Amendment 1963 French territories were included in the l schedule as

UT of Puducherry.

· Reorganised Punjab into Punjab, Haryana and UT

Eighteenth Amendment 1966
of Chandigarh.

Twenty first Amendment 1967 ·Included Sindhi as the Fifteenth Regional language.

Twenty second Amendment 1969 ·Created a sub-state of Meghalaya within Asom.

·Extended the reservation of seats for SC/ST and

Twenty third Amendment 1969 nomination of Anglo-Indians for further period of 10

years (till 1980).
 · Abolished the titles and special privileges of former
Twenty sixth Amendment 1971
rulers of princely states.

·Established Manipur and Tripura as States and

Twenty seventh Amendment 1971
Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh as UTs.

· Increased the elective strength of LS from 525 to

Thirty first Amendment 1973 545. The upper limit of representatives of States
went up from 500 to 525.

Thirty sixth Amendment 1975 · Made Sikkim a State.

· Provided that the President can make a declaration

of emergency, and the promulgation of ordinances
by the President, Governors and the Administrative
Thirty eighth Amendment 1975
Heads of UTs would be final and could not be
challenged in any court. It also authorised the
President to declare different kinds of emergencies.

·Placed beyond challenge in courts, the election to

Parliament of a person holding the office of PM or
Thirty ninth Amendment 1975 Speaker and election of the President and Prime
Minister.

·Provided supremacy of Parliament and gave

primacy to Directive principles over Fundamental
Right. It also added 10 Fundamental Duties. New
Forty second Amendment 1976
words- Socialist, Secular and Unity and Integrity of
the Nation, were added in the preamble.

·The Right to Property was deleted from Part lll.

Article 352 was amended to provide ‘Armed

Forty fourth Amendment 1978 Rebellion’ as one of the circumstances for

declaration of emergency.
 ·Extended reservation for SC/ST by another 10 years

Forty fifth Amendment 1985 (till 1990).

·Added the Tenth Schedule (regarding anti-

Fifty second Amendment 1985
defection).

Fifty third Amendment 1986 ·Mizoram was made a state.

·Hindi version of the Constitution of India was

accepted for all purposes. The UT of Goa, Daman
Fifty sixth Amendment 1987
and Diu was divided and Goa was made a State.
Daman and Diu remained as a UT.

·Reduced the voting age from 21 to 18 years for the

Sixty first Amendment 1989
LS as well as Assemblies.

·Also extended reservation of seats for SC/ST till

Sixty first Amendment 1989
2000 AD.

·Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali were included in the

Seventy first Amendment 1992
VIII Schedule.

· (Panchayati Raj Bill) Provided among other things

Gram Sabha in Villages, Constitution of panchayats
at the village and other levels, direct elections to all
Seventy third Amendment 1993
seats in panchayats and reservation of seats for the
SC and ST, and fixing of tenure of 5 years for
panchayats.

·(Nagarpalika Bill) Provides for, among other things,

Constitution of three types of municipalities,
Seventy fourth Amendment 1993
reservation of seats in every municipality for the SC
and ST, women and the backward classes.

· Reinstalled the provision of reservation of SC and

Eighty second Amendment 2000
STs in matters related to promotion. Besides, the
 qualifying marks for passing an examination for
them has also been lowered.

·Extended Freeze on Lok Sabha and State Assembly

Eighty fourth Amendment 2001
seats till 2026.

·Makes education a fundamental right for children in

Eighty sixth Amendment 2002
the age group of 6-14 years.

· Made the 2001 census the basis for delimitation of

Eighty seventh Amendment 2003 constituencies of the Lower House of Parliament (

Lok Sabha) and State assembly (Vidhan Sabha).

·Amended the Anti-Defection Law and also made a

provision that the number of ministers in the in the

Ninety first Amendment 2003 Central & State Govts. Cannot be more than 15% of
the strength of Lok Sabha & respected Vidhan
Sabha.

·Bodo, Maithili, Santhali and Dogri added into the

Ninety second Amendment 2003
VIII Schedule.

· To reserve seats for socially & educationally

backward classes, besides the SCs and STs, in
Ninety third Amendment 2005
private unaided institutions other than those run by
minorities.

· It excludes Bihar from the provision of clause (1)

of Article 164 which provides that there shall be a
minister in charge of welfare of the SCs AND
Ninety fourth Amendment 2006
Backward classes in Bihar, MP and Orissa. It also
proposed to extend the provision of clause (1) of
Article 164 to Chhatisgarh and Jharkand.

Ninety fifth Amendment 2010
Ninety sixth Amendment 2011
Ninety seventh Amendment 2012
·To extend the reservation of seats for SCs and STs
in the Lok Sabha and States Assemblies from Sixty
years to Seventy years ( continuation of reservation
for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes
and the representation of the Angle-Indian
community by nomination for a further period of ten
years till 25 Jan, 2020).
·Substituted ‘odia’ for ‘Oriya’ in the 8thSchedule of
the Constitution.
· Added the words ‘or co-operative societies’ after
the word ‘or unions in Article 19 (I) (c) and insertion
of article 43B, i.e. Promotion of Co-operative
Societies and added Part-IXB i.e. The Co-operative
Societies. The amendment objective is to encourage
economic activities of cooperative, which in turn
help progress of rural India. It is expected to not only
ensure autonomous and democratic functioning of
cooperatives, but also the accountability of the
management to the members and other
stakeholders.