QuestionPolity / Article 297
Which one of the following is NOT vested in the Union by the Constitution (Fortieth Amendment) Act?
- (a) All mines and minerals lying in the ocean within its territorial waters
- (b) All resources of the exclusive economic zone
- (c) Fisheries
- (d) All things of value in the ocean within its continental shelf
Answer: (c) Fisheries
The 40th Amendment (1976) rewrote Article 297: vests in the Union all lands, minerals and things of value under the ocean within territorial waters and continental shelf, and all other resources of the EEZ. 'Fisheries' as such is not named.