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Indian Polity Quiz: Inter-State Relations and Zonal Councils

  • 10 questions
  • 10 minutes
  • Difficulty: Medium
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This Indian Polity quiz on Inter-State Relations and Zonal Councils puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.

Questions in this quiz

10 questions with answers and explanations

Q1.Indian PolityEasy

The Inter-State Council can be established by the President under which article of the Constitution?

  1. A.Article 261
  2. B.Article 262
  3. C.Article 263
  4. D.Article 280
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Correct answer: C. Article 263

Article 263 empowers the President to establish by order an Inter-State Council if it appears to him that the public interest would be served by it, and it lists the Council duties: inquiring into and advising upon disputes between States, investigating and discussing subjects of common interest to the Union…

Q2.Indian PolityMedium

The Zonal Councils in India were created by which of the following?

  1. A.An order of the President under Article 263
  2. B.The States Reorganisation Act, 1956
  3. C.The Seventh Schedule of the Constitution
  4. D.A resolution of the Planning Commission
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Correct answer: B. The States Reorganisation Act, 1956

The five Zonal Councils were set up by this Act, which also reorganised the States on a linguistic basis, and they are therefore statutory bodies rather than constitutional ones.

Q3.Indian PolityEasy

Who acts as the chairman of each of the five Zonal Councils?

  1. A.The Prime Minister
  2. B.The Union Home Minister
  3. C.The senior-most Governor of the zone
  4. D.The Chief Minister of the largest State of the zone
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Correct answer: B. The Union Home Minister

The States Reorganisation Act makes the Union Home Minister the common chairman of all five Zonal Councils, so that the Centre and the States of a zone meet under one presiding officer.

Q5.Indian PolityMedium

Full faith and credit is to be given throughout the territory of India to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of the Union and the States under which article?

  1. A.Article 256
  2. B.Article 261
  3. C.Article 301
  4. D.Article 131
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Correct answer: B. Article 261

This article makes the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of the Union and of every State valid and provable everywhere in India, and it declares that the final judgments and orders of civil courts in any part of India may be executed anywhere in the country.

Q6.Indian PolityHard

The Inter-State Council set up in 1990 followed the recommendation of which commission?

  1. A.The Punchhi Commission
  2. B.The Sarkaria Commission
  3. C.The Rajamannar Committee
  4. D.The Dhar Commission
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Correct answer: B. The Sarkaria Commission

Appointed in 1983 under Justice R. S. Sarkaria to review Centre-State relations, it submitted its report in 1988 and pressed for a permanent Inter-State Council under Article 263; the Council was created by a presidential order in 1990.

Q7.Indian PolityHard

Under which Act was the North Eastern Council constituted?

  1. A.The States Reorganisation Act, 1956
  2. B.The North Eastern Council Act, 1971
  3. C.The North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1985
  4. D.The Government of Union Territories Act, 1963
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Correct answer: B. The North Eastern Council Act, 1971

The north-eastern States were not placed in any of the five Zonal Councils, so Parliament gave them their own body by this Act, with headquarters at Shillong; Sikkim was added as a member in 2002.

Q8.Indian PolityMedium

Which article of the Constitution empowers Parliament to provide for the adjudication of disputes relating to the waters of inter-State rivers?

  1. A.Article 262
  2. B.Article 263
  3. C.Article 252
  4. D.Article 249
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Correct answer: A. Article 262

It allows Parliament to provide by law for the adjudication of disputes over the waters of inter-State rivers and river valleys, and its second clause allows Parliament to bar the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and of every other court in such a dispute.

Q10.Indian PolityHard

Which of the following statements about the Inter-State Council is correct?

  1. A.Its recommendations are binding on the States
  2. B.It is chaired by the Union Home Minister
  3. C.Its Standing Committee was constituted in 1996 and is chaired by the Union Home Minister
  4. D.Only the Chief Ministers of States are its members
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Correct answer: C. Its Standing Committee was constituted in 1996 and is chaired by the Union Home Minister

A Standing Committee of the Inter-State Council was constituted in 1996 for continuous consultation between the Centre and the States, and it is chaired by the Union Home Minister while the Council itself is chaired by the Prime Minister.

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