 bill  no 132 of  2018 the constitution (amendment) bill,  2018 by shri tej pratap singh yadav  mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-ninth year of the republic of india as follows:—1  this act may be called the  constitution (amendment) act, 2018short title2  in the seventh schedule to the constitution,—(i) in list ii-state list, entry12 shall be omitted;amendment of the seventh schedule"25a libraries, museums and other similar institutions controlled or financed by the state; ancient and historical monuments and records other than those declared by or under law made by parliament to be of national importance" statement  of  objects  and  reasonsas per the constitution, the subject "libraries" forms the part of the state list if the union government wants to have a library legislation at national level, it has to amend the constitution by shifting the item of libraries from state list to the concurrent listthe government of india appointed a committee in the year 1948 to suggest the possibilities of establishing a national central library at new delhi dr sr ranganathan as a member of the committee prepared "draft library bills for union and constituent states" later, the central government did not take decision to pass a union library billsince independence, only nineteen out of twenty-nine states have passed the library legislation through public library acts in their respective states due to lack of funds, resources and trained manpower, majority of public libraries in the country are in pathetic conditionthe working group of libraries under national knowledge commission in its 2006report entitled "libraries: gateways to knowledge - a roadmap for revitalisation" recommended that "in order to facilitate the coordinated development of libraries across different sectors and to provide the legislative framework, required legal support and financial backing to the library sector, the government could, in course of time, consider including libraries in the concurrent list of the constitution of india this should be done without in any way abrogating the existing responsibilities of the states towards libraries"due to partial and ineffective implementation of state legislation, a national library legislation is needed to bring in a robust legislative framework to make india a knowledge societythe bill, therefore, seeks to amend the seventh schedule to the constitution with a view to transfer entry 12 of list-ii, state list pertaining to 'libraries', to list-iii, concurrent list so that the parliament and the central government can also play vital role in the overall development of a national library policy, systems and services in the countrythe bill seeks to achieve the above objectivenew delhi;tej pratap singh yadavjune 29, 2018 annexureextract from the constitution of india      list ii-state list      12  libraries, museums and other similar institutions controlled or financed by the state; ancient and historical monuments and records other than those [declared by or under law made by parliament] to be of national importance        list iii-concurrent list      25  education, including technical education, medical education and universities, subject to the provisions of entries 63, 64, 65 and 66 of list i; vocational and technical training of labour]       lok  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri tej pratap singh yadav,  mp)mgipmrnd—605ls(s3)—24-07-2018