Advocatetanmoy Law Library
54. The Constitution (Fifty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1986—This Act increases the salaries of
Supreme Court and High Court judges as follows :
Chief Justice of India ₹ 10,000 per month
Judges of Supreme Court ₹ 9,000 per month
Chief Justice of High Court ₹ 9,000 per month
Judges of High Court ₹ 8,000 per month
This Act amended Part ‘D’ of the Second Schedule to the Constitution to give effect to the above
increases in the salaries of judges and to make an enabling provision in Articles 125 and 221 to
provide for changes in the salaries of judges in future by Parliament by law.
55. The Constitution (Fifty-fifth Amendment) Act, 1986—This Act seeks to give effect to the
proposal of Government of India to confer statehood on the Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh and
for this purpose, a new Article 371H has been inserted which, inter alia, confers, having regard to
the sensitive location of Arunachal Pradesh to vest special responsibility on Governor of the new
State of Arunachal Pradesh with respect to law and order in the State and in the discharge of his
functions, the Governor shall after consulting the Council of Ministers, exercise his individual
judgement, as to the action to be taken and this responsibility shall cease when President so directs.
The new Article also provides that the new Legislative Assembly of the new State of Arunachal
Pradesh, shall consist of not less than thirty members.
56. The Constitution (Fifty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1987—Government of India has proposed to
constitute the territories comprised in Goa District of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu as
the State of Goa and the territories comprised in Daman and Diu districts of that Union Territory as a
new Union Territory of Daman and Diu. In this context, it was proposed that the Legislative Assembly
of the new State of Goa shall consist of 40 members. The existing Legislative Assembly of the Union
Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu has 30 elected members and three nominated members. It was
intended to make this Assembly with the exclusion of two members representing Daman and Diu
districts the provisional Legislative Assembly for the new State of Goa until elections are held on the
expiry of the five year terms of the existing Assembly. It was, therefore, decided to provide that the
Legislative Assembly of the new State of Goa shall consist of not less than 30 members. The special
provision required to be made to give effect to this proposal is carried out by this amendment.
