Concurrent List

The concurrent list includes matters that give authority to both the Center and the state governments. Issues include education, including technical education, medical training and universities, population control and family planning, criminal justice, animal cruelty prevention, wildlife and animal protection, forests, etc. However, as there can be conflicts when it comes to laws passed by Parliament and the State legislatures passing on the same subject, Constitution provides for a central statute overriding a state statute.

Concurrent List of the Constitution

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Concurrent List:

The concurrent list includes matters that give authority to both the Center and the state governments. Issues include education, including technical education, medical training and universities, population control and family planning, criminal justice, animal cruelty prevention, wildlife and animal protection, forests, etc. However, as there can be conflicts when it comes to laws passed by Parliament and the State legislatures passing on the same subject, Constitution provides for a central statute overriding a state statute....

List of Subjects Mentioned in Concurrent List:

Serial   No.             7th Schedule of the Indian Constitution – Concurrent List 1 Criminal law, including all matters included in the Indian Penal Code at the commencement of this Constitution but excluding offences against laws with respect to any of the matters specified in List I or List II and excluding the use of naval, military or air forces or any other armed forces of the Union in aid of the civil power 2 Criminal procedure, including all matters included in the Code of Criminal Procedure at the commencement of this Constitution 3 Preventive detention for reasons connected with the security of a State, the maintenance of public order, or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community; persons subjected to such detention 4 Removal from one State to another State of prisoners, accused persons and persons subjected to preventive detention for reasons specified in Entry 3 of this list 5 Marriage and divorce; infants and minors; adoption; wills, intestacy and succession; joint family and partition; all matters in respect of which parties in judicial proceedings were immediately before the commencement of this Constitution subject to their personal law 6 Transfer of property other than agricultural land; registration of deeds and documents 7 Contracts include partnership, agency, contracts of carriage, and other special forms of contracts, but do not include contracts relating to agricultural land 8 Actionable wrongs 9 Bankruptcy and insolvency 10 Trust and Trustees 11 Administrators-general and official trustees 11A Administration of justice; constitution and organization of all courts, except the Supreme Court and the High Courts 12 Evidence and oaths; recognition of laws, public acts and records, and judicial proceedings 13 The welfareCivil procedure, including all matters included in the Code of Civil Procedure 14 Contempt of court, but not including contempt of the Supreme Court 15 Vagrancy; nomadic and migratory tribes 16 Lunacy and mental deficiency, including places for the reception or treatment of lunatics and mentally deficient 17 Prevention of cruelty to animals 17A Forests 17B Protection of wild animals and birds 18 Adulteration of foodstuffs and other goods 19 Drugs and poisons, subject to the provisions of Entry 59 of List I with respect to opium 20 Economic and social planning 20A Population control and family planning 21 Commercial and industrial monopolies combine and trust 22 Trade unions; industrial and labour disputes 23 Social security and social insurance; employment and unemployment 24 The welfare of labour includes conditions of work, provident funds, employers’ liability, workmen’s compensation, invalidity and old age pensions and maternity benefits 25 Education, including technical education, medical education and universities, is subject to the provisions of Entries 63, 64, 65 and 66 of List I; vocational and technical training of labour 26 Legal, medical and other professions 27 Relief and rehabilitation of persons displaced from their original place of residence by reason of the setting up of the Dominions of India and Pakistan 28 Charities and charitable institutions, charitable and religious endowments and religious institutions 29 Prevention of the extension from one State to another of infectious or contagious diseases or pests affecting men, animals or plants 30 Vital statistics include the registration of births and deaths 31 Ports other than those declared by or under law made by Parliament or existing law to the major ports 32 Shipping and navigation on inland waterways as regards mechanically propelled vessels, the rule of the road on such waterways, and the carriage of passengers and goods on inland waterways are subject to the provisions of List I with respect to national waterways 33 Trade and commerce in, and the production, supply and distribution of,- (a) the products of any industry where the control of such industry by the Union is declared by Parliament by law to be expedient in the public interest, and imported goods of the same kind as such products, (b) foodstuffs including edible oilseeds and oils, (c) cattle fodder, including oilcake and other concentrates, (d) raw cotton, whether ginned or unpinned and cotton seed; and raw jute 33A Weights and measures except for the establishment of standards 34 Price control 35 Mechanically propelled vehicles include the principles on which taxes on such land revenue are to be levied 36 Factories 37 Boilers 38 Electricity 39 Newspapers, books and printing presses 40 Archaeological sites and remains other than those 2b[declared by or under law made by Parliament to be of national importance 41 Custody, management and disposal of property (including agricultural land) declared by law to be evacuee property 42 Acquisition and requisitioning of property 43 Recovery in a State of claims in respect of taxes and other public demands, including arrears of land revenue and sums recoverable as such arrears, arising outside that State 44 Stamp duties other than duties or fees collected by means of judicial stamps, but not including rates of stamp duty 45 Inquiries and statistics for the purposes of any of the matters specified in List II or List III 46 Jurisdiction and powers of all courts, except the Supreme Court, with respect to any of the matters in this List 47 Fees in respect of any of the matters in this List, but not including fees taken in any court...