IMPORTANT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS for TSPSC SI CONSTABLE SSC

 1. First Amendment Act 1951 

 Added Ninth Schedule to protect the land reform and other laws included in it from the judicial review  Empowered the state to make special provisions for the advancement of socially and economically backward classes 

2.Fourth Amendment Act,1955 

 Authorized the state to nationalize any trade 3. Seventh Amendment Act1956 

 It was necessitated on account of reorganization of states on a linguistic basis and changed first and fourth schedules 

 Provided for the establishment of a common high court for two or more states 

 Extended the jurisdiction of high courts to union territories 

4.Eighth Amendment Act, 1960 

 Extended reservation of SC, ST & Anglo Indians in Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies for a period of 10 years 

5.Ninth Amendment Act, 1960 

 Transferred certain territories to Pakistan following September 1958 Indo-Pak Agreement 

6.Tenth Amendment Act, 1961 

 Incorporated Dadra and Nagar Haveli in the Indian Union 

7. Twelfth Amendment Act, 1962 

 Incorporated Goa, Daman and Diu in the Indian Union

8.Thirteenth Amendment Act, 1962 

 Gave the status of a state to Nagaland and made special provisions for it 

9.Fourteenth Amendment Act, 1962 

 Incorporated Puducherry in the Indian Union 

10. Fifteenth Amendment Act, 1963 

 Enabled the high courts to issue writs to any person or authority even outside its territorial jurisdiction if the cause of action arises within its territorial limits. 

 The retirement age of high court judges from 60 to 62 years 

11.Seventeenth Amendment Act, 1964 

 Amended right to property and added more provisions in 9th schedule 

12.Nineteenth Amendment Act, 1966 

 Abolished the system of Election Tribunals and vested the power to hear election petitions in the High Courts 

13.Twenty-First Amendment Act, 1967 

 Included sindhi as the 15th language in the Eight Schedule 

14.Twenty-Second Amendment Act, 1969  Created a sub state of Meghalaya within Assam 

15.Twenty-Fifth Amendment Act, 1971 

 Curtailed the fundamental right to property 16. Twenty-Sixth Amendment Act, 1971 

 Abolished titles and special privileges of former rulers of princely states 

17.Twenty-Seventh Amendment, 1971 

 Made certain special provisions for new Union Territories of Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram 18. Thirty-First Amendment Act, 1972 

 Increased the number of Lok Sabha seats from 525 to 545 

19.Thirty-Fifth Amendment Act, 1974 

 Terminated the protectorate status of Sikkim and conferred on it the status of an associate state of the Indian Union 20. Thirty-Sixth Amendment Act, 1975 

 Made Sikkim a full-fledged State of the Indian Union 

21.Forty-First Amendment Act, 1976 

 Increase in retirement age of members of State Public Service Commission and Joint Public Service Commission from 60 to 62 22. Forty-Second Amendment Act, 1976 

 Added three new words (socialist, secular and integrity) in the Preamble 

 Added Fundamental Duties by the citizens (new Part IV A). 

 Froze the seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies on the basis of 1971 census till 2001 

 Provided that the laws made for the implementation of Directive Principles cannot be declared invalid by the courts on the ground of violation of some Fundamental Rights 

23.Forty-Fourth Amendment Act, 1978 

 Provided that the fundamental rights guaranteed by Articles 20 and 21 cannot be suspended during a national emergency 

 Deleted the right to property from the list of Fundamental Rights and made it only a legal right 

24. Fifty-Second Amendment Act, 1985 

 Provided for disqualification of members of Parliament and state legislatures on the ground of defection and added a new Tenth Schedule containing the details in this regard 

25.Fifty-Sixth Amendment Act, 1987 

 Goa was made full-fledged State 

 Fixed the strength of the Goa Legislative Assembly at a minimum of 30 members 

26.Sixty-First Amendment Act, 1989 

 Reduced the voting age from 21 years to 18 years for the Lok Sabha and state legislative assembly elections 

27. Sixty-Fifth Amendment Act, 1990 

 Establishment of National Commission for SCs & STs 

28. Sixty-Ninth Amendment Act, 1991 

 Special status to the Union Territory of Delhi by designing it as the National Capital Territory

29.Seventy-First Amendment Act, 1992 

 Included Konkani, Manipuri and Nipali languages in the Eight Schedule 30. Seventy-Third Amendment Act, 1992 

 Granted constitutional status and protection to the panchayat raj institutions 

 The Amendment has added a new Part-IX entitled as ’the panchayats’ and added new 11thSchedule 

31. Seventy-Fourth Amendment Act, 1992 

 Granted constitutional status and protection to the urban local bodies 

 The Amendment has added a new Part IX-A entitled as ‘the municipalities’ and a new 12thSchedule

 32.Eighty-Sixth Amendment Act, 2002 

 Made elementary education a fundamental right. The newly added Article 21-A declares that “the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the State may determine” 

 Added a new fundamental duty under Article 51-A which reads— “It shall be the duty of every citizen of India who is a parent or guardian to provide opportunities for education to his child or ward between the age of six and fourteen years” 

32. Eighty-Ninth Amendment Act, 2003 

 Bifurcated the erstwhile combined National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes into two separate bodies

33. Ninety-First Amendment Act, 2003 

 The total number of ministers, including the Prime Minister, in the Central Council of Ministers shall not exceed 15% of the total strength of the Lok Sabha 

 The total number of ministers, including the Chief Minister, in the Council of Ministers in a state shall not exceed 15% of the total strength of the legislative Assembly of that state 

34. Ninety-Second Amendment Act, 2003 

 Included four more languages in the Eighth Schedule. They are Bodo, Dogri (Dongri), Mathilli (Maithili) and Santhali 

35.One Hundredth Amendment Act, 2015 

 Land boundary agreement between India and Bangladesh and Amended 1st schedule of constitution

 36. 101st Constitution Amendment Act, 2016 

 Goods and Services Tax (GST) has commenced with the enactment of the 101st Constitution Amendment Act, 2016  Articles 246A, 269A and 279A were added in the constitution 

37. 102th constitutional amendment Act 2018 

 Grant constitutional status to National Commission on Backward classes 38. 103th constitutional amendment Act 2019 

 10% Reservation for Economically Weaker Section.