| List | Subjects covered |
| Union List | Atomic energy and mineral resources necessary for its production |
| Railways | |
| National highways | |
| Shipping and navigation on national waterways | |
| Maritime shipping and navigation | |
| Lighthouses for the safety of shipping and aircraft | |
| Major ports | |
| Port quarantine, seaman and marine hospitals | |
| Airways; aircraft and air navigation, provision of aerodromes | |
| Carriage of passengers and goods by railway, sea, air national waterways | |
| Posts and telegraphs; telephones, wireless, broadcasting and other like forms of communication | |
| Oil fields and mineral oil resources; petroleum and petroleum products; other liquids and substances which are inflammable | |
| Regulation of mines and mineral development in public interest | |
| Regulation of labour and safety in mines and oil fields | |
| Regulation of development of inter-state rivers and river valleys | |
| Terminal taxes on goods or passengers, carried by railway, sea or air; taxes on railway fares and freights | |
| State List | Public health and sanitation |
| Communications, that is, roads, bridges, ferries and other means of communication not specified in Union List | |
| Water, that is, water supplies, irrigation and canals, drainage and embankments, water storage and water power | |
| Land, that is, right in or over land, land tenures and the collection of rents | |
| Regulation of mines and mineral development | |
| Gas and gas-works | |
| Taxes on mineral rights | |
| Taxes on the consumption of sale of electricity | |
| Concurrent List | Taxes on goods and passengers carried by road or on inland waterways |
| Tolls | |
| Forests | |
| Economic and social planning | |
| Ports other than major ports | |
| Shipping and navigation on inland waterways | |
| Electricity |