Education is now placed under which list after the 42nd Amendment?

Correct — C. The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976 moved education out of the State List and into the Concurrent List.

It now sits at Entry 25 of List III: "Education, including technical education, medical education and universities", subject to entries 63 to 66 of the Union List.

So both Parliament and the State legislatures can make laws on education.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Union List — The Union List holds only named education items, such as institutions of national importance and standards in higher education (entries 63 to 66). The 42nd Amendment did not move education there.
• (b)
  State List — Education was a State List subject before the 42nd Amendment. The stem says "now", and that amendment took it out of List II.
• (d)
  Judicial List — There is no Judicial List. The Seventh Schedule has three lists: Union, State and Concurrent.

The Seventh Schedule divides legislative power into three lists: Union (Parliament alone), State (State legislatures) and Concurrent (both).

On a Concurrent subject, if a State law conflicts with a Union law, the Union law generally prevails under Article 254.

The 42nd Amendment moved five subjects from the State List to the Concurrent List: education, forests, weights and measures, protection of wild animals and birds, and administration of justice.

Key facts

• The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976 moved five subjects from the State List to the Concurrent List.
• Education is Entry 25 of the Concurrent List (List III).
• Forests (Entry 17A) and protection of wild animals and birds (Entry 17B) entered the Concurrent List through the same amendment.
• The Seventh Schedule has three lists: Union, State and Concurrent.

Common traps

• Answering "State List" from the original 1950 scheme — the stem asks where education sits now.
• Believing a Judicial List exists because administration of justice was also moved, when it went to the Concurrent List.

No directly related past PYQ was found.