| GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012: Important Constitution Amendments Oct 23rd 2012, 19:11 | GyanCentral - The hub for engineering and law students - IIT-JEE, AIEEE, BITSAT, CLAT, AILET - 2012 | | The source for all engineering and legal education news in India | | | Important Constitution Amendments Oct 23rd 2012, 18:42 List of Important Constitutional Amendments: 1. Seventh Amendment 1956 : Necessitated on account of reorganization of States on a linguistic basis. 2. Eighth Amendment 1959 : Extended special provisions for reservations of seats for SCs, STs and Anglo – Indians in Lok Sabha and Leg. Assemblies for a period of 10 years from 1960 to 1970. 3. Thirteenth Amendment 1962 : Created Nagaland as a State. 4. Eighteenth Amendment 1966 : Reorganized Punjab into Punjab, Haryana and UT of Chandigarh. 5. Twenty second Amendment 1969 : Created a sub – state of Meghalaya within Assam. 6. Twenty third Amendment 1969 : Extended the reservation of seats for SC / ST and nomination of Anglo – Indians for a further period of 10 years (till 1980). 7. Twenty sixth Amendment 1971 : Abolished the titles and special privileges of former rulers of princely states. 8. Twenty seventh Amendment 1971 : Established Manipur and Tripura as States and Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh as UTs. 9. Thirty first Amendment 1973 : Increased the elective strength of Lok Sabha from 525 to 545. The upper limit of representatives of States went up from 500 to 525. 10. Thirty sixth Amendments 1975 : Made Sikkim a State. 11. Thirty eighth Amendment 1975 : Provided that the President can make a declaration of emergency, and the promulgation of ordinances by the President, Governors and the Administrative Heads of UTs would be final and could not be challenged in any court. It also authorized the President to declare different kinds of emergencies. 12. Thirty ninth Amendment 1975 : Placed beyond challenge in courts, the election to Parliament of a person holding the office of PM or Speaker and election of the President and Prime Minister. 13. Forty second Amendment 1976 : Provided supremacy of Parliament and gave primacy to Directive Principles over Fundamental Rights. It also added 10 Fundamental Duties. New words – Socialist, Secular and Unity and Integrity of the Nation, were added in the preamble. 14. Forty fourth Amendment 1978 : The Right to Property was deleted from Part III. Article 352 was amended to provide 'Armed Rebellion' as one of the circumstances for declaration of emergency. 15. Forty fifth Amendment 1985 : Extended reservation for SC / ST by another 10 years (till 1990). 16. Fifty second Amendment 1985 : Added the Tenth Schedule (regarding anti – defection). 17. Fifty third Amendment 1986 : Mizoram was made a state. 18. Fifty fifth Amendment 1986 : Conferred statehood to Arunachal Pradesh. 19. Sixty first Amendment 1989 : Reduced the voting age from 21 to 1 8 years for the LS as well as Assemblies. 20. Sixty first Amendment 1989 : Also extended reservation of seats for SC / ST till 2000 AD. 21. Seventy third Amendment 1993 : (Panchayati Raj Bill) Provided among other things Gram Sabha in Villages, constitution of panchayats at the village and other levels, direct elections to all seats in panchayats and reservation of seats for the SC and ST and fixing of tenure of 5 years for panchayats. 22. Seventy fourth Amendment 1993 : (Nagarpalika Bill) Provides for, among other things, constitution of three types of municipalities, reservation of seats in every municipality for the SC and ST, women and the backward classes. 23. Eighty second Amendment 2000 : Reinstalled the provision of reservation of SC and STs in matters related to promotion. Besides, the qualifying marks for passing an examination for them have also been lowered. 24. Eighty fourth Amendment 2001 : Extended freeze on Lok Sabha and State Assembly seats till 2026. 25. Eighty sixth Amendment 2002 : Makes education a fundamental right for children in the age group of 6 – 14 years. 26. Ninety first Amendment 2003 : Amended the Anti – Defection Law and also made a provision that the number of ministers in the Central & State Governments, cannot be more than 15% of the strength of Lok Sabha & respected Vidhan Sabha. 27. Ninety third Amendment 2005 : To reserve seats for socially and educationally backward classes, besides the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, in private unaided institutions other than those run by minorities |  | | |  |  |
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