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title: "What are the three lists in the Seventh Schedule?"  
description: "What are the three lists in the Seventh Schedule?"  
author: "Mathilde Nielsen"  
published: 2026-11-12  
updated: 2026-11-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/120000/what-are-the-three-lists-in-the-seventh-schedule  
category: "general knowledge"  
tags: ["Seventh Schedule", "Union List", "State List", "Concurrent List", "Federalism"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are the three lists in the Seventh Schedule?



## Answers

### Answer by Mitchell Smith

The Seventh Schedule divides law-making powers between the Centre and the states into three lists:

- **Union List:** subjects only Parliament can make laws on, such as defence, foreign affairs, banking, railways and currency.
- **State List:** subjects for state legislatures, such as police, public order, public health, agriculture and land.
- **Concurrent List:** subjects on which both can make laws, such as education, forests, marriage, criminal law and electricity. If there is a conflict, the central law generally prevails.

Residuary subjects, those not listed anywhere, belong to Parliament. The 42nd Amendment moved education and forests from the State List to the Concurrent List.


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