Which of the following items are a part of the Union List?

Question

Question

This question was previously asked in

UP Police SI (दरोगा) Previous Paper 3 (Held On: 14 Dec 2017 Shift 2)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Lighthouse.

Mistake Points

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Key Points

Article 246 deals with the Seventh- Schedule of the Constitution that mentions three lists - Union List, State List, and Concurrent List.
The Union List is a list of 100 (Originally 97) numbered items as provided in List I of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.
The Union Government or the Parliament of India has exclusive power to legislate on matters relating to these items.
Few important items are:
- Defense of India.
- Naval, military, and air forces; any other armed forces of the Union.
- Lighthouse, including lightships, beacons
- Atomic energy and mineral resources, necessary for its production.
- Central Bureau of Intelligence and Investigation.
- War and peace.
- Preventive Detention.
- Regulation and development of inter-State rivers and rivers.
- Constitution, organization, jurisdiction, and powers of the Supreme Court.
- Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the Supreme Court.

Additional Information

List II of the Seventh Schedule is the State List which consists of 59 items (originally 66) subjects.
- Some of the important subjects are Public order, Public health and sanitation, hospitals and dispensaries, and Police.
List III of the Seventh Schedule is the Concurrent List which consists of 52 items (originally 47) subjects.
- Some of the important subjects are Education, Forest, Trade unions, Marriage, and Adoption.