Rajasthan Mixed Quiz: Set 25

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Ninety-first Constitutional Amendment of 2003, provides that the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total strength of the Legislative Assembly, and fifteen per cent of Rajasthan's two hundred seats is thirty.

It provides that the Governor of a state shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal, which is why a Governor is not elected and owes his office to the Union executive.

The panchayat samiti is the middle or block level tier, and its elected members choose one of themselves as Pradhan, with an Up-Pradhan as deputy.

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated panchayati raj at Nagaur on 2 October 1959, acting on the recommendation of the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee, and Rajasthan therefore became the first state in India to begin the three tier system of local self government.

The High Court of Rajasthan has its principal seat at Jodhpur, and a bench was established at Jaipur in 1977, so the court sits in two cities; cases are distributed between them according to the districts from which they come.

These four districts of the south east formed the Hada Chauhan country, from which the region takes the name Hadoti and the dialect its name Hadoti or Harauti.

The Vikas Adhikari, known in general administration as the block development officer, is the government officer posted to a panchayat samiti to execute its resolutions, run the development schemes of the block and control its staff and accounts.

The temple of Karni Mata at Deshnok, about thirty kilometres from Bikaner city, is famous for the rats that live in it and are regarded as sacred, and fairs are held there during the Navratras of Chaitra and of Ashwin.

As the princely states of Rajputana merged, their separate courts were replaced by a single High Court for the new state, established in 1949 with its seat at Jodhpur; its first Chief Justice was Kamala Kant Verma.

The phad of Devnarayanji, the deity of the Gurjars whose shrine stands at Malaseri Dungri in Asind of Bhilwara district, is the longest of the painted scrolls, and it is sung by Gurjar bhopas to the stringed jantar.

Article 243K requires every state to have a State Election Commission, headed by a State Election Commissioner appointed by the Governor, to superintend, direct and control the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of all elections to panchayats; Article 243ZA extends the same to municipal elections.

The name comes from the word for the lotus, which is the chief motif of the print, and the yellow ground marks an auspicious event; the garment is given to a mother after childbirth and is also worn at Teej and other festive occasions.

Until the States Reorganisation of 1956 the head of the state was called the Rajpramukh, and the office of Governor was created for Rajasthan from November 1956, the first holder being Sardar Gurmukh Nihal Singh.

In this dance of acrobatic skill a woman places one earthen or brass pot upon another in a tall column on her head and then dances on the narrow rim of a brass thali, on the edge of a sword or on a heap of broken glass, keeping the column…

It requires the Governor of a state to constitute a State Finance Commission once in every five years to review the financial position of the panchayats and to recommend how the taxes, duties, tolls and fees of the state should be shared with them and what grants in aid they…

The bhapang is a small drum of a hollowed gourd with a skin head, through which a gut string runs; the player plucks the string and tightens or loosens it to slide the pitch, producing the talking tone of the Mewati folk songs.

It provides that the Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor and the other ministers appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister, that ministers hold office during the Governor's pleasure, and that the Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly.

The Gram Sabha is the general body of voters, not a committee of representatives, which is why it is called the village counterpart of the legislature; it considers the annual accounts and audit report, approves plans and beneficiary lists and carries out the social audit of works.

She was appointed Governor of Rajasthan in 2004, the first woman to hold that office in the state, and in 2007 she became the first woman President of India.

The Rajasthan Public Service Commission, constituted in 1949 and working under Article 315 of the Constitution, has its headquarters at Ajmer, from where it conducts the examinations and interviews for the state services, including the Rajasthan Administrative Service and the state education and police services.