The Union List, also known as List-I, is a list of 97 numbered items (after 101st Constitutional amendment act 2016, entry 92 and 92c removed) given in Seventh Schedule in the

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on which

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has exclusive power to legislate. The legislative section is divided into three lists: the Union List, State List and Concurrent List. In India, residual powers remain with the Central Government. This makes the government of India similar to the Canadian federal government, and different from the governments of the

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, or

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Items on union list

There are 97 numbered items on the list. These are: :01. Defence of India and every part there of including preparation for defence and all such acts as may be conducive in times of war to its prosecution and after its termination to effective demobilisation. :02. Naval,

military A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with their members identifiable by a d ...

and air forces; any other

armed forces A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with their members identifiable by a ...

of the Union. :2A. Deployment of any

of the Union or any other force subject to the control of the Union or any contingent or unit thereof in any State in aid of the civil power; powers, jurisdiction, privileges and liabilities of the members of such forces while on such deployment. :03. Delimitation of cantonment areas, local self-government in such areas, the constitution and powers within such areas of cantonment authorities and the regulation of house accommodation (including the control of rents) in such areas. :04. Naval,

and

air force An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army aviati ...

works. :05.

Arms Arms or ARMS may refer to: *Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to: People * Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader Coat of arms or weapons *Armaments or weapons **Fi ...

, firearms,

ammunition Ammunition, also known as ammo, is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system. The term includes both expendable weapons (e.g., bombs, missiles, grenades, land mines), and the component parts of oth ...

and

explosives An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure. An exp ...

. :06. Atomic energy and mineral resources necessary for its production. :07. Industries declared by Parliament by law to be necessary for the purpose of defence or for the prosecution of war. :08. Central Bureau of Intelligence and Investigation. :09. Preventive detention for reasons connected with Defence,

Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and foreign policy of the United States, U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit organization, nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership or ...

, or the security of India; persons subjected to such detention. :10.

Foreign affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and foreign policy of the United States, U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit organization, nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership or ...

; all matters which bring the Union into relation with any foreign country. :11. Diplomatic, consular and trade representation. :12. United Nations Organisation. :13. Participation in international conferences, associations and other bodies and implementing of decisions made thereat. :14. Entering into treaties and agreements with foreign countries and implementing of treaties, agreements and conventions with foreign Countries. :15. War and

peace Peace is a state of harmony in the absence of hostility and violence, and everything that discusses achieving human welfare through justice and peaceful conditions. In a societal sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (suc ...

. :16. Foreign jurisdiction. :17.

Citizenship Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term ''citizenship'' to refer to nationalit ...

, naturalisation and aliens. :18.

Extradition In an extradition, one Jurisdiction (area), jurisdiction delivers a person Suspect, accused or Conviction, convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, into the custody of the other's law enforcement. It is a cooperative law enforc ...

. :19. Admission into, and

emigration Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...

and expulsion from, India; passports and visas. :20. Pilgrimages to places outside India. :21. Piracies and crimes committed on the

high seas The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regiona ...

or in the air; offences against the law of nations committed on land or the high seas or in the air. :22. Railways. :23.

Highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or ...

s declared by or under law made by Parliament to be

national highways National Highways (NH), formerly Highways England and before that the Highways Agency, is a State-owned enterprise, government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving Roads in England, motorways and major A roads in Eng ...

. :24.

Shipping Freight transport, also referred to as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been ...

and

navigation Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the motion, movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.Bowditch, 2003:799. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navig ...

on inland waterways, declared by Parliament by law to be national waterways, as regards mechanically propelled vessels; the rule of the road on such waterways. :25. Maritime shipping and navigation, including shipping and navigation on tidal waters; provision of education and training for the mercantile marine and regulation of such education and training provided by States and other agencies. :26. Lighthouses, including lightships, beacons and other provision for the safety of shipping and aircraft. :27.

Port A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Hamburg, Manch ...

s declared by or under law made by Parliament or existing law to be major ports, including their delimitation, and the constitution and powers of port authorities therein. :28. Port quarantine, including hospitals connected therewith; seamen's and marine hospitals. :29. Airways aircraft and air navigation; provision of

aerodrome An aerodrome, airfield, or airstrip is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for public or private use. Aerodromes inc ...

s; regulation and organisation of air traffic, and of aerodromes; provision for aeronautical education and training and regulation of such education and training provided by States and other agencies. :30. Carriage of passengers and goods by railway, sea or air, or by national waterways in mechanically propelled vessels. :31. Posts and telegraphs, telephones, wireless, broadcasting and other like forms of communication. :32. Property of the Union and the revenue therefrom, but as regards property situated in a State subject to legislation by the State, save in so far as Parliament by law otherwise provides. :33. ~~Acquisition or requisitioning of property for the purposes of the Union~~(As per Seventh Amendment) Act,1956 :34. Courts of wards for the estates of Rulers of Indian States. :35. Public debt of the Union. :36. Currency,

coin A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade. They are most often issued by ...

age and legal tender; foreign exchange. :37. Foreign loans. :38.

Reserve Bank of India Reserve Bank of India, abbreviated as RBI, is the central bank of the Republic of India, and regulatory body responsible for regulation of the Indian banking system and Indian rupee, Indian currency. Owned by the Ministry of Finance (India), Min ...

. :39. Post Office Savings Bank. :40. Lotteries organised by the

Government of India The Government of India (ISO 15919, ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India or the Central Government) is the national authority of the Republic of India, located in South Asia, consisting of States and union t ...

or the Government of a State. :41.

Trade Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. Traders generally negotiate through a medium of cr ...

and

commerce Commerce is the organized Complex system, system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered large-scale exchange (distribution through Financial transaction, transactiona ...

with foreign countries import and export across customs frontiers definition of customs frontiers. :42. Inter-State trade and commerce. :43. Incorporation, regulation and winding up of trading Corporations, including banking, insurance and financial corporations but not including Co-operative Societies. :44. Incorporation, regulation and winding up of corporations, whether trading or not, with objects not confined to one State, but not including universities. :45.

Banking A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital m ...

. :46. Bills of exchange, cheques,

promissory note A promissory note, sometimes referred to as a note payable, is a legal instrument (more particularly, a financing instrument and a debt instrument), in which one party (the ''maker'' or ''issuer'') promises in writing to pay a determinate sum of ...

s and other like instruments. :47.

Insurance Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect ...

. :48.

Stock exchanges A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an Exchange (organized market), exchange where stockbrokers and stock trader, traders can buy and sell security (finance), securities, such as share (finance), shares of stock, Bond (finance) ...

and futures markets. :49.

Patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an sufficiency of disclosure, enabling discl ...

s, inventions and designs;

copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, ...

; trade-marks and merchandise marks. :50. Establishment of standards of weight and measure. :51. Establishment of standards of quality for goods to be exported out of India or transported from one State to another. :52. Industries, the control of which by the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be expedient in the public interest. :53. Regulation and development of oilfields and mineral oil resources; petroleum and petroleum products; other liquids and substances declared by Parliament by law to be dangerously inflammable. :54. Regulation of mines and mineral development to the extent to which such regulation and development under the control of the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be expedient in the public interest. :55. Regulation of labour and safety in mines and oil-fields. :56. Regulation and development of inter-State rivers and river valleys to the extent to which such regulation and development under the control of the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be expedient in the public interest. :57. Fishing and fisheries beyond territorial waters. :58. Manufacture, supply and distribution of salt by Union agencies; regulations and control of manufacture, supply and distribution of salt by other agencies. :59. Cultivation, manufacture, and sale for export, of

opium Opium (also known as poppy tears, or Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the seed Capsule (fruit), capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid mor ...

. :60. Sanctioning of cinematograph films for exhibition. :61. Industrial disputes concerning Union employees. :62. The institutions known at the commencement of this Constitution as the

National Library A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public library, public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, ...

, the Indian Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Victoria Memorial and the Indian War Memorial, and any other like institution financed by the Government of India wholly or in part and declared by Parliament by law to be an institution of national importance. :63. The institutions known at the commencement of this Constitution as the Benares Hindu University, the Aligarh Muslim University and the Delhi University; the University established in pursuance of Article 371-E; any other institution declared by Parliament by law to be an institution of national importance. :64. Institutions for scientific or technical education financed by the Government of India wholly or in part and declared by Parliament by law to be institutions of national importance. :65. Union agencies and institutions for - ::::(a) professional, vocational or technical training, including the training of police officers; or ::::(b) the promotion of special studies or research; or ::::(c) scientific or technical assistance in the investigation or detection of crime. :66. Co-ordination and determination of standards in institutions for higher education or research and scientific and technical institutions. :67. Ancient and historical monuments and records, and archaeological sites and remains, declared by or under law made by Parliament to be of national importance. :68. The Survey of India, the

Geological Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth s ...

, Botanical, Zoological and Anthropological Surveys of India; Meteorological organisations. :69.

Census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

. :70. Union public services; all-India services; Union Public Service Commission. :71. Union Pensions, that is to say, pensions payable by the Government of India or out of the Consolidated Fund of India. :72. Elections to Parliament, to the Legislatures of States and to the offices of President and Vice-President; the Election Commission. :73. Salaries and allowances of members of Parliament, the

Chairman The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the gro ...

and Deputy chairman of the Council of States and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of the People. :74. Powers, privileges and Immunities of each House of Parliament and of the members and the Committees of each House enforcement of attendance of persons for giving evidence or producing documents before committees of Parliament or commissions appointed by Parliament. :75. Emoluments, allowances, privileges, and rights in respect of leave of absence, of the President and

Governors A governor is an politician, administrative leader and head of a polity or Region#Political regions, political region, in some cases, such as governor-general, governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the ...

salaries and allowances of the Ministers for the Union; the Salaries, allowances, and rights in respect of leave of absence and other conditions of service of the Comptroller and Auditor General. :76. Audit of the accounts of the Union and of the States. :77. Constitution, organisation, jurisdiction and powers of the

Supreme Court In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...

(including contempt of such Court), and the fees taken therein persons entitled to practice before the Supreme Court. :78. Constitution and organisation (including vacations) of the High Courts except provisions as to officers and servants of High Courts; persons entitled to practice before the High Courts. :79. Extensions of the jurisdiction of a High Court to, and exclusion of the jurisdiction of a High Court from any Union territory. :80. Extension of the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to any State to any area outside that State, but not so as to enable the police of one State to exercise powers and jurisdiction in any area outside that State without the consent of the Government of the State in which such area is situated; extension of the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to any State to railway areas outside that State. :81. Inter-state migration; inter-State quarantine. :82. Taxes on income other than agricultural income. :83. Duties of

customs Customs is an authority or Government agency, agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling International trade, the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out ...

including

export An export in international trade is a good produced in one country that is sold into another country or a service provided in one country for a national or resident of another country. The seller of such goods or the service provider is a ...

duties. :84. Duties of excise on tobacco and other goods manufactured or produced in India except— ::::(a) alcoholic liquors for human consumption. ::::(b) opium, Indian hemp and other narcotic drugs and narcotics, ::but including medicinal and toilet preparations containing alcohol or any substance included in sub-paragraph (b) of this entry. :85. Corporation tax. :86. Taxes on the capital value of the assets, exclusive of agricultural land, of individuals and companies; taxes on the capital of companies. :87. Estate duty in respect of property other than agricultural land. :88. Duties in respect of succession to property other than agricultural land. :89. Terminal taxes on goods or passengers, carried by railway, sea or air; taxes on railway fares and freights. :90. Taxes other than stamp duties on transactions in stock exchanges and futures markets. :91. Rates of stamp duty in respect of bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes, bills of lading, letters of credit, policies of insurance, transfer of shares, debentures, proxies and receipts. :92. ~~Taxes on the sale or purchase of newspapers and on advertisements published therein.~~ (omitted as per 101st Amendment Act) :92A. Taxes on the sale or purchase of goods other than newspapers, where such sale or purchase takes place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce. :92B. Taxes on the consignment of goods (whether the consignment is to the person making it or to any other person), where such consignment takes place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce. :92C. ~~Taxes on services.~~ (omitted as per 101st Amendment Act) :93. Offences against laws with respect to any of the matters in this List. :94. Inquiries, surveys and statistics for the purpose of any of the matters in this List. :95. Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the

, with respect to any of the matters in this List admiralty jurisdiction. :96. Fees in respect of any of the matters in this List, but not including fees taken in any court. :97. Any other matter not enumerated in List II or List III including any tax not mentioned in either of those Lists.

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