Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 20

The Fundamental Duties were added on the recommendation of this committee, set up in 1976. The Swaran Singh Committee suggested that the Constitution should spell out the duties of citizens alongside their rights.

Subordinate courts are the courts at the district level and below, and they hear civil and criminal cases as courts of first instance.

The Vice President of India holds office for a term of five years from the date of entering upon the office.

Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar was the Chief Justice of India when the nine-judge bench delivered its verdict in Justice K.S.

Article 77 says all executive action of the Government of India shall be expressed to be taken in the name of the President, and that the President shall make rules for the more convenient transaction of the government's business and for allocating it among ministers.

Part XIV of the Constitution, titled Services under the Union and the States, covers Articles 308 to 323, and the public service commissions sit in it.

The Representation of the People Act was passed in 1951, before the first general election. Parliament made two laws under Articles 327 and 328.

Article 263 allows the President to set up an Inter-State Council to discuss disputes and common subjects among states; the council was first formed in 1990 on the Sarkaria Commission's advice.

The Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai set up the Second Backward Classes Commission in 1978.

In a cognizable offence the police may register a case, start an investigation and arrest a person without any order from a magistrate.

The Attorney General of India is dealt with in Article 76, which falls in Part V of the Constitution, the part on the Union, and not in Part XIII.

Even during a national emergency, the enforcement of Articles 20 and 21 cannot be suspended. Article 21 protects life and personal liberty, and Article 20 protects a person from retrospective criminal laws, from being punished twice for the same offence and from being forced to be a witness against himself.

The makers of the Constitution took the scheme of a federation with a strong centre from Canada, and with it the rule that subjects not listed in any of the three lists stay with the Union; Article 248 and entry 97 of the Union List carry that rule.

It lays down the composition of a state's Legislative Council. Under Article 171 the Council cannot have more than one third of the strength of the Legislative Assembly and never fewer than forty members.

Article 234 of the Constitution says that appointments of persons other than district judges to the judicial service of a state are made by the Governor, following rules framed after consulting the State Public Service Commission and the High Court of that state.

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

The Eighty-ninth Amendment Act, 2003 split the old joint commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes into two separate bodies.

The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 defines a deaf person in its schedule as one having 70 dB hearing loss in speech frequencies in both ears.

Article 78 makes it the duty of the Prime Minister to communicate to the President all decisions of the Council of Ministers relating to the administration of the Union and proposals for legislation; to furnish such information about them as the President may call for; and, if the President so…

Article 75(5) says a minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of either House of Parliament shall, at the end of that period, cease to be a minister.