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title: "8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution"  
description: "Amendment means to change or alter existing provisions of law. With time laws of the country need to be updated. Here's 8 important amendments of constitution"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-10  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1530/8-important-amendments-to-the-indian-constitution  
category: "education"  
tags: ["Constitution", "Indian constitution", "amendment", "important amendments", "constitutional amendments"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# 8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution

![8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a618f900-6474-410e-aa28-b3160f1c57e2/images/61a9dd25-823f-4e61-827c-73d1da23af27.jpeg) ![8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a618f900-6474-410e-aa28-b3160f1c57e2/images/c3ae337d-6908-4fba-9d84-04b2698043c4.jpeg) 1st Constitutional Amendment Act, 1951, Article 15 clause 4 and Article 19 clause 6 were added ![8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a618f900-6474-410e-aa28-b3160f1c57e2/images/1ab0b39c-21ce-43bc-9951-27ec60a1cb12.jpeg) 15th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1963, increased retirement age of High court judge from 60 to 62 ![8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a618f900-6474-410e-aa28-b3160f1c57e2/images/e71cc739-10c3-494a-a361-63317d5be7c4.jpeg) 21st Constitutional Amendment Act, 1967, added the Sindhi language as the regional language ![8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a618f900-6474-410e-aa28-b3160f1c57e2/images/fe47fbc6-25d3-4db9-832a-8442bc6a5dd2.jpeg) 24th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1971,. parliament has the power to amend fundamental rights ![8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a618f900-6474-410e-aa28-b3160f1c57e2/images/471fa69e-b9c7-407f-a192-ac966b336958.jpeg) 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1976, adding the words ‘SOCIALIST’, ‘SECULAR’, and ‘INTEGRITY’ ![8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a618f900-6474-410e-aa28-b3160f1c57e2/images/613eb936-e67e-4b94-a840-3a79a4bf5758.jpeg) 44th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1978, the right to property no more remained a Fundamental right ![8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a618f900-6474-410e-aa28-b3160f1c57e2/images/780a0a6b-7f09-498d-ae03-cff63c214e5a.jpeg) 58th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1987,given an authoritative text of the Constitution in the Hindi ![8 Important Amendments to the Indian Constitution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/a618f900-6474-410e-aa28-b3160f1c57e2/images/126fc8f5-db82-44bf-b32d-310e289c5306.jpeg) 61st Constitutional Amendment Act, 1988, brought a change in the pattern of the election in India

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