The Indian Constitution comprises 25 Parts and 12 Schedules, totaling 448 Articles. Adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949, it formally took effect on 26 January 1950.<\/p>\n
Initially, the Constitution contained 395 Articles across 22 Parts and 8 Schedules. Over time, it underwent significant expansion, adding four Parts, four Schedules, and additional Articles (with one Part later repealed).<\/p>\n
The following table gives the Parts of the Indian Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n Three Parts were added to the Constitution, which originally had 22 Parts. Now, the Indian Constitution consists of 25 Parts.<\/p>\n Part IV-A was added by the 42nd Amendment (1976) to the Constitution. This Part deals with the Fundamental Duties.<\/p>\n Part XIV-A was also added by the 42nd Amendment. This Part contains articles on Tribunals.<\/p>\n Part IX-A was added by the 74th Amendment Act (1992). This Part deals with Municipalities.<\/p>\n Part IX-B was added by the 97th Amendment Act (2011) and deals with the co-operative societies.<\/p>\n Part VII (dealing with Part \u2013 B states) was deleted by the 7th Amendment Act (1956).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What are various parts of the Indian Constitution? The Indian Constitution comprises 25 Parts and 12 Schedules, totaling 448 Articles. Adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949, it formally took effect on 26 January 1950. Initially, the Constitution contained 395 Articles across 22 Parts and 8 Schedules. Over time, it underwent significant expansion,… Continue reading Various Parts of Indian Constitution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n Part<\/strong><\/td>\n Subject<\/strong><\/td>\n Articles<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I<\/td>\n The Union and its territory<\/td>\n 1 \u2013 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n II<\/td>\n Citizenship<\/td>\n 5 \u2013 11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n III<\/td>\n Fundamental Rights<\/td>\n 12 \u2013 35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n IV<\/td>\n Directive Principles of State Policy<\/td>\n 36 \u2013 51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n V<\/td>\n \u00a0The Union Government<\/td>\n 52 \u2013 151<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n VI<\/td>\n \u00a0The State Governments<\/td>\n 152 \u2013 237<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n VII<\/td>\n Repealed by the Constitution (7th Amendment) Act, 1956 Article 238 omitted due to the reorganisation of states<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n VIII<\/td>\n The Union Territories<\/td>\n 239 \u2013 242<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n IX<\/td>\n \u00a0The Panchayats<\/td>\n 243 \u2013 243-O<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n IX-A<\/td>\n \u00a0The Municipalities<\/td>\n 243-P \u2013 243-ZG<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n IX-B<\/td>\n \u00a0The Co-operative Societies<\/td>\n 243-ZH \u2013 243-ZT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n X<\/td>\n \u00a0The Scheduled and Tribal Areas<\/td>\n 244 \u2013 244-A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XI<\/td>\n \u00a0Relations between the Union and the States<\/td>\n 245 \u2013 263<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XII<\/td>\n XII Chapter I \u2013 Legislative Relations 245 \u2013 255
\nChapter II \u2013 Administrative Relations 256 \u2013 263
\nFinance, Property, Contracts and Suits 264 \u2013 300-A<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XIII<\/td>\n Trade, Commerce and Intercourse within the Territory of India<\/td>\n 301 \u2013 307<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XIV<\/td>\n Services under the Union and the States<\/td>\n 308 \u2013 323<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XIV-A<\/td>\n Chapter I \u2013 Services 308 \u2013 314
\nChapter II \u2013 Public Service Commissions 315 to 323
\nTribunals 323-A \u2013 323-B<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XV<\/td>\n Elections<\/td>\n 324 \u2013 329-A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XVI<\/td>\n Special Provisions relating to Certain Classes<\/td>\n 330 \u2013 342<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XVII<\/td>\n \u00a0Official Language<\/td>\n 343 to 351<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XVIII<\/td>\n \u00a0Emergency Provisions<\/td>\n 352 \u2013 360<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XIX<\/td>\n \u00a0Miscellaneous<\/td>\n 361 \u2013 367<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XX<\/td>\n \u00a0Amendment of the Constitution<\/td>\n 368<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XXI<\/td>\n \u00a0Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions<\/td>\n 369 \u2013 392<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n XXII<\/td>\n \u00a0Short title, Commencement, Authoritative Text in Hindi and Repeals<\/td>\n 393 \u2013 395<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n What are parts that are added by Amendments?<\/h2>\n