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First Amendment, 1951
*Added the Ninth schedule. Restricted freedom of speech and expression.
Seventh Amendment 1956
*Provided the re-organization of states on linguistic basis.
Ninth Amendment 1960
*Gave effect to transfer of Indian territory of Berubary - Union (West Bengal) to Pakistan following the Indo — Pak agreement 1958,
Fifteenth Amendment 1963
*Increased the retirement age of high court judges from 60 to 62 years.
Twenty First Amendment 1967
*Sindhi was added as the 15th language in the Eight Schedule.
Twenty Fourth Amendment 1971
*Affirmed the power of Parliament to amend any part of the Constitution including fundamental rights.
*Made it compulsory for the President to give his assent to a Constitutional Amendment Bill.
Twenty Sixth Amendment 1971
*Abolished the privy purses and privileges of the former Rulers of princely states
Thirty Sixth Amendment 1975
*Made Sikkim a full fledged state of Indian Union and Omitted the Tenth Schedule which was added by the Thirty fifth Amendment Act.
Forty Fourth Amendment 1978
*Deleted the Right to Property from the List of Fundamental Rights and made it only a legal right
*Replaced the term ‘internal disturbance’ by ‘armed rebellion’ in respect of National Emergency (Articles-352).
*The term cabinet was inserted in Article 352.
*Provided that the Fundamental Rights guaranteed by Articles 20 and 21 cannot be suspended during a National Emergency.
*44th Amendment Act was enacted during the Janatha Government.
Fifty Second Amendment 1985
*Popularly known as Anti - Defection Law
*Added Tenth Schedule which deals with the disqualification of members of Parliament and state Legislatures on the ground of defection
Sixty First Amendment 1989
*Voting age was reduced from 21 years to 18 years for the Lok Sabha and State Legislative assembly elections.
Sixty fifth Amendment 1990
*Provided for the establishment of a National Commission for SCs and STs.
Sixty Ninth Amendment 1991
*The Union Territory of Delhi was designated as the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
Seventy First Amendment 1992
*Included Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali languages in the Eight Schedule.
Seventy Third Amendment 1992
*This Amendment Act is also known as ‘Panchayati Raj Act’.
*This act has added a new Part - IX to the Constitution of India which'covers Articles 243 to 243-0.
*The Act 'also added a new eleventh schedule to the constitution.
