UNION LIST (LIST-I)

1. Defence of India

2. Naval, military and air forces; any other armed forces of the Union

2A. Deployment of any armed force of the Union in any state in aid of the civil power

3. Cantonment areas and local self-government in such areas

4. Naval, military and air force works

5. Arms, firearms, ammunition, and explosives

6. Atomic energy and mineral resources necessary for its production

7. Defence industries

8. Central Bureau of Intelligence and investigation

9. Preventive detention for reasons connected with defence, foreign affairs, or the security of India

10. Foreign affairs

11. Diplomatic, consular and trade representation

12. United Nations Organisation

13. International conferences, associations and other bodies

14. Treaties, agreements and conventions with foreign countries

15. War and peace

16. Foreign jurisdiction

17. Citizenship, naturalisation and aliens

18. Extradition

19. Passports and visas

20. Pilgrimages to places outside India

21. Piracies and crimes committed on the high seas or in the air and offences against the law of nations.

22. Railways

23. National highways

24. Shipping and navigation on national waterways

25. Maritime shipping and navigation

26. Lighthouses for the safety of shipping and aircraft

27. Major ports

28. Port quarantine, seaman and marine hospitals

29. Airways; aircraft and air navigation; provision of aerodromes

30. Carriage of passengers and goods by railway, sea, air or national waterways

31. Posts and telegraphs; telephones, wireless, broadcasting and other like forms of communication

32. Property of the Union

33. (Omitted)

34. Courts of wards for the estates of rulers of Indian states

35. Public debt of the Union

36. Currency, coinage and legal tender; foreign exchange

37. Foreign loans

38. Reserve Bank of India

39. Post office savings bank

40. Lotteries organised by the Union or state

41. Trade and commerce with foreign countries

42. Inter-state trade and commerce

43. Trading corporations, including banking, insurance and financial corporations but not including co-operative societies

44. Corporations, whether trading or not, with objects not confined to one state

45. Banking

49. Patents, inventions and designs; copyright; 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 in the public interest

53. Oil fields and mineral oil resources; petroleum and petroleum products; other liquids and substances which are inflammable

54. Regulation of mines and mineral development in the public interest

55. Regulation of labour and safety in mines and oil fields

56. Regulation and development of interstate rivers and river valleys

57. Fishing and fisheries beyond territorial waters

58. Manufacture, supply and distribution of salt by Union and other agencies

59. Cultivation and manufacture of opium and its export

60. Sanctioning of cinematograph films for exhibition

61. Industrial disputes concerning Union employees

62. National Library, the Indian Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Victoria Memorial and the Indian War Memorial, and any other like institution of national importance

63. Benaras Hindu University, the Aligarh Muslim University and the Delhi University; any other institution of national importance

64. Scientific or technical education institutions of national importance

65. Union agencies and institutions for training, research or detection of crime

66. Standards in institutions for higher education or research and scientific and technical institutions

68. The Survey of India, the Geological, Botanical, Zoological and Anthropological Surveys of India; Meteorological organisations

69. Census

70. Union Public Services; All-India Services; Union Public Service Commission

71. Union pensions

72. Elections to Parliament, the legislatures of states and the offices of President and Vice-President; the Election Commission

73. Salaries and allowances of members and presiding officers of Parliament

74. Powers, privileges and immunities of each House of Parliament and of the members and the committees of

each House

75. Emoluments and service conditions of the president, governors, the ministers for the Union and the Comptroller and Auditor General

76. Audit of the accounts of the Union and of the states

77. Organisation, jurisdiction and powers of the Supreme Court

78. Organisation of the high courts

79. Extension of the jurisdiction of a high court to 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

81. Inter-state migration; inter-state quarantine

82. Taxes on income other than agricultural income

83. Duties of customs including export duties

84. Duties of excise on the following goods manufactured or produced in India, namely:-

(a) petroleum crude

(b) high speed diesel

(c) motor spirit (commonly known as petrol)

(d) natural gas

(e) aviation turbine fuel; and

(f) tobacco and tobacco products

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. (Omitted)

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 in the course of inter-state trade or commerce

92C. (Omitted)

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 Supreme Court) 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