UPSC CDS 2 2020 GK Paper

• The 42nd Amendment to the Constitution of India was enacted in 1976. The Amendment: attempted to reduce the power of the Supreme Court and High Courts, added Article 51 A, which contained the Fundamental Duties for citizens and added Socialist, Secular, and Integrity added to the Preamble of the Constitution.
• The Amendment transferred five subjects (Education, Forests, Weight & Measures, Protection of Wild Animals and Birds, and Administration of Justice) from the state list to the concurrent list.
• The Amendment also added the four new Directive principles of the state policy.
• Due to the scale of changes introduced, this amendment is also known as ‘mini-Constitution’.