Amended Provisions of the Constitution

1. Prohibited the acquisition of land under personal cultivation unless the market value of the land is paid as compensation.

2. Included 44 more Acts in the Ninth Schedule.

Made it clear that the power of Parliament to form a new state also includes a power to form a new state or union territory by uniting a part of a state or a union territory to another state or union territory.

Abolished the system of Election Tribunals and vested the power to hear election petitions in the High Courts.

Validated certain appointments of district judges in the UP which were declared void by the Supreme Court.

Included sindhi as the 15th language in the Eight Schedule.

Facilitated the creation of a new autonomous State of Meghalaya within the State of Assam.

Extended the reservation of seats for the SCs and STs, and special representation for the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies for a further period of ten years (i.e., up to 1980).