Union List subjects

Q.  Which of the following subjects are included in the Union List?

1) Foreign affairs
2) Taxes on the sale or purchase of newspapers
3) Taxes on services
4) Major ports

- Published on 24 Feb 17

a. Only 1 and 4
b. Only 1, 3 and 4
c. Only 1, 2 and 4
d. All of the above

ANSWER: All of the above
 
    Union List consists of 100 subjects currently. Some of the important subjects in it are -
1. Defense of India.

2. Cantonment areas and local self-government in those areas.

3. Arms, firearms, ammunition & explosives.

4. Atomic energy and mineral resources necessary for its production.

5. Foreign affairs.

6. Entering into treaties and agreements with foreign countries and their implementation.

7. War and peace.

8. Citizenship, naturalization and aliens.

9. Extradition.

10. Passports and visas.

11. Pilgrimages to places outside India.

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

13. Railways.

14. Highways declared to be National highways.

15. Shipping and navigation on national waterways.

16. Maritime shipping and navigation.

17. Major ports.

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

19. Currency, coinage and legal tender; foreign exchange.

20. Foreign loans.

21. Reserve Bank of India.

22. Post office savings bank.

23. Lotteries organized by the Union Govt. or state Govt.

24. Trade and commerce with foreign countries.

25. Inter-state trade and commerce.

26. Incorporation, regulation & winding up of trading corporations, including banking, insurance and financial corporations but not including co-operative societies.

27. Incorporation, regulation & winding up of corporations, whether trading or not, with objects not confined to one state.

28. Banking.

29. Insurance.

30. Stock exchange and futures markets.

31. Patents, inventions and designs; copyright; trade-marks and merchandise marks.

32. Establishment of standards of weight and measure.


33. Regulation and development of Oil fields and mineral oil resources; petroleum and petroleum products; other liquids and substances which are inflammable.

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

35. Regulation and development of inter-state rivers and river valleys.

36. Fishing and fisheries beyond territorial waters.

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

38. Cultivation and manufacture of opium and its export.

39. Institutions of national importance.

40. BHU, the Aligarh Muslim University and the Delhi University; any other institution of national importance.

41. Ancient and historical monuments and records, and archaeological sites and remains of national importance.

42. The Survey of India, the Geological, Botanical, Zoological and Anthropological Surveys of India; Meteorological organizations.

43. Census.

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

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

46. Constitution, organization, jurisdiction and powers of the Supreme Court.

47. Constitution, organization of the high courts.

48. Extension of the powers and jurisdiction of members of a police force belonging to any state to any area outside that state.

49. Inter-state migration; inter-state quarantine.

50. Taxes on income other than agricultural income.

51. Duties of customs including export duties.

52. Duties of excise on tobacco and other goods except alcoholic liquors for human consumption and opium, Indian hemp and other narcotic drugs and narcotics, but including medicinal and toilet preparations containing alcohol.

53. Corporation tax.

54. Taxes on the capital value of the assets exclusive of agricultural land, of individuals and companies; taxes on the capital of companies.

55. Duties in respect of succession to property other than agricultural land.

56. Terminal taxes on goods or passengers, carried by railway, sea or air; taxes on railway fares and freights.

57. Taxes other than stamp duties on transactions in stock exchanges and futures markets.

58. 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.

59. Taxes on the sale or purchase of newspapers and on advertisements published therein.

60. 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.

61. Taxes on services.

62. Jurisdiction and powers of all courts except the Supreme Court with respect to any of the matters in this list; admiralty jurisdiction.

63. 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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