How Many Parts are in the Indian Constitution?

Constitution of India

There have been 105 amendment acts passed to the Indian Constitution. The Constitution establishes a parliamentary government with some unitary characteristics and a federal framework.

• The President is the official head of the Union’s Executive under the Constitution.
• The Council of the Parliament of the Union is comprised of the President, the Rajya Sabha, and the House of the People, in accordance with Article 79 of the Indian Constitution (Lok Sabha).
• In accordance with Article 74(1) of the Constitution, the President performs his or her duties on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Ministers Council.
• The actual executive authority thus rests with the Council of Ministers, which is led by the Prime Minister.
• The union of states known as Bharat makes up the Indian Constitution.
• The country is a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic with a parliamentary system of government.
• The Indian Constitution, approved by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949, and took effect on January 26, 1950, governs the Republic.

Parts of the Indian Constitution

We have listed all 25 parts of the Indian Constitution below for a better understanding.

Parts	Subject	Articles
I	The Union and its territory	1 to 4
II	Citizenship	5 to 11
III	Fundamental Rights	12 to 35
IV	Directive Principles of State Policy	36 to 51
IV-A	Fundamental Duties	51-A
V	The Union Government	52 to 151
	Chapter I – The Executive	52 to 78
	Chapter II – Parliament	79 to 122
	Chapter III – Legislative Powers of the President	123
	Chapter IV – The Union Judiciary	124 to 147
	Chapter V – Comptroller and Auditor-General of India	148 to 151
VI	The State Governments	152 to 237
	Chapter I – General	152
	Chapter II – The Executive	153 to 167
	Chapter III – The State Legislature	168 to 212
	Chapter IV – Legislative Powers of the Governor	213
	Chapter V – The High Courts	214 to 232
	Chapter VI – Subordinate Courts	233 to 237
VIII	The Union Territories	239 to 242
IX	The Panchayats	243 to 243-O
IX-A	The Municipalities	243-P to 243-ZG
IX-B	The Co-operative Societies	243-ZH to 243-ZT
X	The Scheduled and Tribal Areas	244 to 244-A
XI	Relations between the Union and the States	245 to 263
	Chapter I – Legislative Relations	245 to 255
	Chapter II – Administrative Relations	256 to 263
XII	Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits	264 to 300-A
	Chapter I – Finance	264 to 291
	Chapter II – Borrowing	292 to 293
	Chapter III – Property, Contracts, Rights, Liabilities, Obligations and Suits	294 to 300
	Chapter IV – Right to Property	300-A
XIII	Trade, Commerce and Intercourse within the Territory of India	301 to 307
XIV	Services under the Union and the States	308 to 323
	Chapter I – Services	308 to 314
	Chapter II – Public Service Commissions	315 to 323
XIV-A	Tribunals	323-A to 323-B
XV	Elections	324 to 329-A
XVI	Special Provisions relating to Certain Classes	330 to 342
XVII	Official Languages	343 to 351
	Chapter I – Language of the Union	343 to 344
	Chapter II – Regional Languages	345 to 347
	Chapter III-Language of the Supreme Court, High Courts, and so on	348 to 349
	Chapter IV-Special Directives	350 to 351
XVIII	Emergency Provisions	352 to 360
XIX	Miscellaneous	361 to 367
XX	Amendment of the Constitution	368
XXI	Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions	369 to 392
XXII	Short title, Commencement, Authoritative Text in Hindi and Repeals	393 to 395

To summarise, we can say that the 395 clauses in the original Indian Constitution were divided into 22 parts. The Indian Constitution later included 448 provisions and 25 sections as of 2021. Additional articles were also added to the Constitution under these 25 segments. As of today, there are about 470 articles overall.

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