Indian Polity GK Questions with Answers – Page 46

Article 262 lets Parliament provide by law for the adjudication of any dispute or complaint about the use, distribution or control of the waters of an inter-State river or river valley, and it also permits Parliament to provide that neither the Supreme Court nor any other court shall exercise jurisdiction…

The 42nd Amendment Act of 1976 moved exactly five subjects from the State List to the Concurrent List: education, forests, weights and measures, protection of wild animals and birds, and administration of justice with the constitution and organisation of all courts except the Supreme Court and the High Courts.

The Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016 inserted Article 279A, under which the President constitutes the GST Council, chaired by the Union Finance Minister, with the Union Minister of State for Finance and a minister nominated by each State as members.

Article 280 requires the President to constitute a Finance Commission every fifth year, or at such earlier time as the President considers necessary, consisting of a chairman and four other members.

Article 249 provides that if the Rajya Sabha declares by a resolution supported by not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting that it is necessary or expedient in the national interest, Parliament may make a law on a matter in the State List; such a law stays…

The Union government appointed a three-member Commission on Centre-State Relations in 1983 under Justice Rajinder Singh Sarkaria, a retired judge of the Supreme Court; it submitted its report in 1988 and recommended a permanent Inter-State Council, sparing use of Article 356, and consultation with States before legislating on Concurrent subjects.

Article 263 empowers the President to establish by order an Inter-State Council charged with inquiring into and advising upon disputes between States, investigating subjects of common interest, and making recommendations for better coordination of policy.

Article 254(1) lays down that where a State law is repugnant to a law made by Parliament on a Concurrent subject, the parliamentary law prevails and the State law is void to the extent of the inconsistency.

Article 248 gives Parliament the exclusive power to make a law on any matter not enumerated in the Concurrent List or the State List, and the power to impose a tax not mentioned in either of those lists; entry 97 of the Union List says the same thing from the…

Criminal procedure is an entry of the Concurrent List, List III of the Seventh Schedule, along with criminal law and the law of evidence, which is why the code of criminal procedure has always been a central law that States may amend with the President's assent.

It admitted Sikkim as the twenty-second State of the Indian Union, inserted it into the First Schedule and omitted the earlier provisions that had given it a special status.

It amended the First Schedule to give effect to the acquiring of territories by India and the transfer of certain territories to Bangladesh under the Land Boundary Agreement, settling a dispute that had lasted since Partition.

Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014 and came into existence on 2 June 2014, which is observed as its formation day.

The Seventh Constitutional Amendment Act of 1956 accompanied the States Reorganisation Act, abolished the old classification of States into Parts A, B, C and D, and reorganised the country into fourteen States and six Union territories.

It was carved out of the Madras Presidency in 1953 for Telugu speakers, after the death of Potti Sriramulu on a fast unto death pressed the demand to a point the government could not resist.

The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in 1953 under the chairmanship of Fazl Ali and submitted its report in 1955.

The President sought the advisory opinion of the Supreme Court on whether the agreement to transfer part of the Berubari Union to Pakistan could be carried out under Article 3.

Article 4 states that a law made under Article 2 or Article 3 may contain provisions for amending the First Schedule, which lists the States and Union territories, and the Fourth Schedule, which allots Rajya Sabha seats, and that no such law shall be deemed to be an amendment of…

The proviso to Article 3 lays down two conditions. First, such a Bill may be introduced in either House only on the recommendation of the President.

Article 2 provides that Parliament may by law admit into the Union, or establish, new States on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.