| The Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951 |
Changes to the Fundamental Rights provisions of the constitution |
| The Constitution (Second Amendment) Act, 1952 |
Amended Article 81 in order to remove the prescribed limit of 7,50,000 of the population for one member to be elected to the Lok Sabha. |
| The Constitution (Third Amendment) Act, 1954 |
Changes in the Seventh Schedule consisting of the three Legislative Lists and entry 33 of the Concurrent List were substituted by a new one. |
| The Constitution (Fourth Amendment) Act, 1955 |
Articles 31 and 31A were amended |
| The Constitution (Fifth Amendment) Act, 1955 |
amended Article 3 |
| The Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act,1956 |
This amendment was designed to implement the State Reorganisation Act. |
| The Constitution (Ninth Amendment) Act, 1960 |
It provided for the transfer of certain territories of India to Pakistan under an agreement between India and Pakistan |
| The Constitution (Tenth Amendment) Act, 1961 |
The Tenth Amendment integrates the areas of Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli with the Union of India |
| The Eleventh Amendment, 1962 |
Election of Vice President by Electoral College consisting of members of both Houses of Parliament, instead of election by a Joint Sitting of Parliament. |
| The Twelfth Amendment, 1962 |
incorporated the territories of Goa, Daman, and Diu in the Indian Union. |
| The Thirteenth Amendment, 1962, |
created Nagaland as a state of the Union of India. |
| The Fifteenth Amendment, 1963 |
Raise the retirement age of High Court judges from 60 to 62 and other minor amendments |
| The Twenty-first Amendment, 1967 |
included Sindhi as the 15th regional language in the Eighth Schedule. |
| The Twenty-sixth Amendment, 1971 |
Abolished the titles and special privileges of former rulers of princely states. |
| The Thirty-first Amendment, 1973 |
Increased the elective strength of the Lok Sabha from 525 to 545. |
| The Thirty-sixth Amendment 1975 |
Made Sikkim a state of the Indian Union. |
| The Thirty-eighth Amendment 1975 |
Provided that the President can make a declaration of emergency |
| The Forty-second Amendment 1976 |
- Supremacy to the Parliament and gave primacy to the Directive Principles over the Fundamental Rights.
- It also added 10 Fundamental Duties in the Constitution.
- The Preamble of the Constitution was also altered from ‘Sovereign Democratic Republic’ to read ‘Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic’ and ‘Unity of the Nation’ to read ‘Unity and Integrity of the Nation’.
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| The Forty-fourth Amendment 1978 |
- Restored the normal duration of the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies to 5 years.
- The right to property was deleted from Part III.
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| The Forty-fifth Amendment 1980, |
Extended reservation for SC/ST by an additional 10 years (up to 1990). |
| The Fifty-second Amendment 1985, |
Inserted the Tenth Schedule in the Constitution regarding provisions for disqualification on the grounds of defection. |
| The Fifty-sixth Amendment 1987 |
The Hind version of the Constitution of India was accepted for all purposes statehood was conferred on the UT of Goa. |
| The Sixty-first Amendment 1989 |
Reduced the voting age from 21 years to 18 years for the Lok Sabha as well as the Assemblies. |
The Seventy-third Amendment 1992
(Panchayat Bill) |
Seeks to provide, among other things, Gram Sabha in villages, the constitution of Panchayats at the village and other levels, direct elections to all seats in Panchayats and reservation of seats for SC and ST, and fixing of tenure of 5 years for Panchayats. |
The Seventy-fourth Amendment, 1993
(Nagarpalika Bill) |
Provides for, among other things, the constitution of three types of municipalities and the reservation of seats in every municipality for the SC/ST, women, and the OBCs |
| The Eighty-sixth Amendment 2002 |
- Deals with the insertion of a new Article 21A after Article 21.
- The new Article 21A deals with the Right to Education.
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| The Eighty-ninth Amendment 2003 |
Provides for the Amendment of Article 338 |
| The Ninety-first Amendment 2003 |
Provides for the Amendment of Article 75. |
| The Ninety-Second Amendment 2004 |
Include Bodo, Dogri, Santali, and Maithili as official languages. |
| The Ninety-Third Amendment 2006 |
Reservation (27%) for Other Backward Classes(OBC) in government as well as private educational institutions. |
| The Ninety-Ninth Amendment 2015 |
Formation of a National Judicial Appointments Commission |
| The One-Hundredth Amendment 2015 |
The term the Constitution (100th Amendment) Act, 2015 was in news in the fourth week of May 2015 as the President of India Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill, 2013 that related to the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) between India and Bangladesh |
| The One Hundredth One Amendment 2017 |
Introduced the Goods and Services Tax |
| One Hundred and Third Amendment Act 2019 |
Introduces 10% reservation for economically weaker sections of society for admission to Central Government-run educational institutions and private educational institutions |
| The Constitution (104th Amendment) Act 2020 |
It extended the reservation of seats for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. |
