Indian Polity GK Questions with Answers – Page 45

The Commission was first set up in 1964 by a resolution of the Government of India on the recommendation of the Santhanam Committee on Prevention of Corruption, and for nearly four decades it worked as an executive body.

The article was inserted by the 101st Constitutional Amendment Act, 2016, the amendment that introduced the goods and services tax, and it requires the President to constitute a Council of the Union Finance Minister, the Union Minister of State in charge of revenue or finance, and the Minister in charge…

Until that amendment a single National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes worked under Article 338.

It is a statutory body created by the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, and no article of the Constitution mentions it, so Parliament could alter or repeal its parent Act by an ordinary majority.

Article 324 vests in the Election Commission the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and of the conduct of all elections to Parliament, to the legislature of every State, and to the offices of President and Vice-President of India.

Article 244(1) says that the provisions of the Fifth Schedule apply to the administration and control of the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes in any State other than Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

The Constitution as adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 had eight Schedules, along with twenty-two Parts and three hundred and ninety-five articles.

The Twelfth Schedule was added by the Constitution (Seventy-fourth Amendment) Act, 1992 and lists eighteen functions that a State legislature may entrust to urban local bodies under Article 243W, among them urban planning including town planning, water supply, public health and sanitation, fire services, slum improvement, urban poverty alleviation and…

The Third Schedule sets out the texts of the oath or affirmation for a Union Minister, a candidate for and a member of Parliament, the Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts, the Comptroller and Auditor General, a State Minister and a member of a State legislature.

Article 246 distributes legislative power with reference to the three lists of the Seventh Schedule: Parliament has exclusive power over the Union List, State legislatures over the State List, and both may legislate on the Concurrent List.

The Sixth Schedule, read with Article 244(2) and Article 275(1), provides autonomous district councils and regional councils with powers to make laws on land, forests, village administration, inheritance and social custom in the tribal areas of these four States.

The Fourth Schedule, read with Article 80 and Article 4, is the table of seats allotted to each State and Union Territory in the Council of States.

Passed in 2003, it added Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali to the Eighth Schedule, taking the number of languages listed there to twenty-two.

The very first amendment to the Constitution added Article 31B along with the Ninth Schedule, so that the zamindari abolition and land ceiling laws of the new State governments could not be struck down for violating the fundamental right to property.

The anti-defection law sits in the Tenth Schedule, which was inserted by the Constitution (Fifty-second Amendment) Act, 1985 and is read with Articles 102(2) and 191(2).

The Eleventh Schedule was inserted by the Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, 1992 and lists twenty-nine subjects, from agriculture and minor irrigation to drinking water, rural housing, poverty alleviation and the public distribution system, which a State legislature may devolve on the panchayats under Article 243G. Option A is wrong because…

The Bharatiya Janata Party was founded on 6 April 1980, after the Janata Party broke up. Its ancestor was the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, started by Syama Prasad Mookerjee in 1951.

India is the standard example of a holding together federation, because one large country chose to divide its powers among states while keeping a strong central government.

Article 76 provides for the Attorney General, the highest law officer of the Union, appointed by the President from among persons qualified to be a judge of the Supreme Court.

Article 75(3) says the Council of Ministers shall be collectively responsible to the House of the People, that is the Lok Sabha.