Indian Polity GK Questions with Answers – Page 64

Each committee is remembered for one clear idea, and the code joins them in the order 1957, 1977, 1985 and 1986.

Both events are real steps in the reorganisation of states on the basis of language, but the division of Punjab in 1966 cannot be the reason for what happened to Bombay six years earlier.

The ward member, the Panchayat President and the ward councillor are all chosen by voters, but the Secretary is an appointed official.

The ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution come from the French Revolution of 1789, whose famous slogan was made of these three words.

These three provisions keep judges free from pressure by the other organs of government, while the oath given by the President is only a formality.

Article 21 protects life and personal liberty, and the Supreme Court reads 'life' as a life with dignity, not mere survival.

A Nyaya Panchayat is a village court for small civil and criminal disputes, a judicial body that some states created, so it is not a tier of local self-government.

The 86th Amendment inserted Article 21A, which makes free and compulsory education for all children aged 6 to 14 years a Fundamental Right, in the manner the State decides by law.

The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988 changed Article 326, which provides for elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies on the basis of adult suffrage, and lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 years.

On 24 April 1973 a 13-judge bench, the largest in the Court’s history, ruled by 7 to 6 that Parliament can amend any part of the Constitution under Article 368, including Fundamental Rights, but cannot alter or destroy its basic structure.

Article 110 says a Bill is a Money Bill if it deals only with matters such as imposing or changing a tax, government borrowing, the custody of the Consolidated Fund or Contingency Fund of India and payments into or out of them, and spending charged on the Consolidated Fund.

The Rajya Sabha has both members nominated by the President and members elected indirectly, so statements A and C are both true.

Certiorari is called a postmortem because it is issued after a lower court or tribunal has already passed its order, to quash that order.

The first Backward Classes Commission, set up by the President under Article 340 in January 1953, was headed by the Gandhian writer Kaka Kalelkar.

The Panchayat Samiti is the middle tier of Panchayati Raj and works at the block level.

Under Article 316, the Chairman and the other members of a State Public Service Commission are appointed by the Governor.

Article 120 fixes the language of Parliament, and its proviso lets the presiding officer allow a member to speak in the mother tongue.

Part IV, Articles 36 to 51, lists the Directive Principles that guide the State in making laws for a welfare state.

The Fourth Schedule allots the seats of the Rajya Sabha, the Council of States, among the States and Union Territories.

Article 343(1) declares that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in the Devanagari script, with the international form of Indian numerals for official purposes.