Arrangement of Constitution

·         Contains 448 Articles divided into XXII Parts

·         12 Schedules

·         5 Appendix

Part	Chapter	Articles	Deals With
I		1-4	The Union and its Territory
II		5-11	Citizenship
III		12-35	Fundamental Rights
IV		36-51	Directive Principles of State Policy
IVA		51A	Fundamental Duties
V		52-151	The Union
	I	52-78	The Executive – The President and Vice President, Council of Ministers, The Attorney-General for India, Conduct of Government Business, Duties of Prime Minister as respects the furnishing of information to the President etc.,
	II	79-122	Parliament, Conduct of business, Disqualifications of Members, Legislative procedure etc.
	III	123	Legislative powers of the President
	IV	124-147	The Union Judiciary
	V	148-151	Comptroller and Auditor-General of India
VI		152-237	The States
	I	152	Definition
	II	153-167	The Executive - The Governor, Council of Ministers, The Advocate-General for the State, Conduct of Government business, Duties of Chief Minister as respects the furnishing of information to Governor, etc.
	III	168-212	The State Legislature, Disqualification of Members, Legislative Procedure, etc.
	IV	213	Legislative power of the Governor
	V	214-232	The High Courts in the States
	VI	233-237	Subordinate Courts
VII		238	Repealed
VIII		239-242	The Union Territories – administration, High Courts for Union Territories etc.
IX		243-243O	The Panchayats
IXA		243P-243ZG	The Municipalities
X		244-244A	The Scheduled and Tribal Areas
XI		245-263	Relations between the Union and the States
	I	245-255	Legislative Relations – distribution of legislative powers, residuary powers of legislation, etc.
	II	256-263	Administrative Relations
XII		264-300A	Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits
	I	264-291	Finance – taxes, grants, finance commission, recommendations of finance commission, exemption from taxes etc.
	II	292-293	Borrowing – by the Government of India and by States.
	III	294-300	Property, Contracts, Rights, Liabilities, Obligations and Suits and proceedings
	IV	300A	Right to Property
XIII		301-307	Trade, Commerce and Intercourse within theterritory of India
XIV		308-323	Services under the Union and the States
	I	308-314	Services – recruitment and conditions of service of persons serving the Union or State,
	II	315-323	Public Service Commissions
XIVA		323A-323B	Tribunals
XV		324-329A	Elections
XVI		330-342	Special Provisions relating to certain Classes- Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in House of the People etc., Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
XVII		343-351	Official Language
	I	343-344	Language of the Union
	II	345-347	Regional Languages
	III	348-349	Language of the Supreme Court, High Court etc.
	IV	350-351	Special Directives
XVIII		352-360	Emergency Provisions
XIX		361-367	Miscellaneous – protection of President, Governors and Rajpramukhs, abolition of privy purses, special provisions as to major ports and aerodromes etc.
XX		368	Amendment of the Constitution - Power of Parliament and procedure therefore
XXI		369-392	Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions
XXII		393-395	Short Title, Commencement, Authoritative text in Hindi and Repeals

SCHEDULES TO THE CONSTITUTION

Schedule	Deals With
First	I.          The States      II.            The Union Territories
Second	Part A: Provisions as to the President and the Governors Part B: Omitted Part C: Provisions as to Speaker, Deputy Speaker etc. Part D: Provisions as to the Judges of SC and HC Part E: Provisions as to Comptroller and Auditor-General of India
Third	Forms of Oaths or Affirmations
Fourth	Allocation of seats in the Council of States
Fifth	Provisions as to the Administration and Control of Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes (contains Parts A, B, C and D)
Sixth	Provisions as to Administration of Tribal Areas in the States of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram
Seventh	List I : Union List (97 subjects) List II : State List (66 subjects) List III : Concurrent List (47 subjects)
Eighth	List of 22 languages of India recognized by Constitution 1. Assamese 2. Bengali 3. Gujarati 4. Hindi 5. Kannada 6. Kashmiri 7. Manipuri 8. Malayalam 9. Konkani 10. Marathi 11. Nepali 12. Oriya 13. Punjabi 14. Sanskrit 15. Sindhi 16. Tamil 17. Telugu 18. Urdu 19. Santhali 20. Bodo 21. Maithili 22. Dogri Sindhi was added in 1967 by 21 Amendment Konkani, Manipuri ad Nepali were added in 1992 by 71 amendment Santhali, Maithili, Bodo and Dogri were added in 2003 by 92 amendment
Ninth	Validation of Acts and Regulations though inconsistent with Part III of the Constitution.
Tenth	Provisions as to Disqualification on Ground of Defection.
Eleventh	Powers, Authority and Responsibilities of Panchayat
Twelfth	Powers, Authority and Responsibilities of Municipality

APPENDIX

I	The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954
II	Re-statement, with reference to the present text of the Constitution, of the exceptions and modifications subject to which the Constitution applies to the State of Jammu and Kashmir
III	Extracts from the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1978.
IV	The Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002.
V	The Constitution (Eighty-eighth Amendment) Act, 2003.