📖 What are Schedules?
Schedules are tables or lists attached at the end of the Constitution that provide additional detail on matters mentioned in the main articles. The Constitution originally had 8 Schedules; it now has 12, the later ones added by amendments.
📋 All 12 Schedules
- First Schedule — Names of the States and Union Territories, and their territorial extent.
- Second Schedule — Salaries, allowances and privileges of the President, Governors, Speaker, judges, CAG, and other officials.
- Third Schedule — Forms of oaths and affirmations for various offices.
- Fourth Schedule — Allocation of seats in the Rajya Sabha to States and Union Territories.
- Fifth Schedule — Administration and control of Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes (outside the north-east).
- Sixth Schedule — Administration of tribal areas in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.
- Seventh Schedule — The Union List, State List, and Concurrent List, dividing legislative power.
- Eighth Schedule — The 22 officially recognised languages of India.
- Ninth Schedule — Laws protected from judicial review on the ground of violating Fundamental Rights (added by the 1st Amendment, 1951).
- Tenth Schedule — The anti-defection law (added by the 52nd Amendment, 1985).
- Eleventh Schedule — 29 subjects devolved to Panchayats (added by the 73rd Amendment, 1992).
- Twelfth Schedule — 18 subjects devolved to Municipalities (added by the 74th Amendment, 1992).
