Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 22

Article 219 says that every person appointed to be a judge of a High Court shall, before he enters upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the Governor of the state, or some person appointed in that behalf by him, in the form set out in…

It was inaugurated on 17 March 1866 as the High Court for the North-Western Provinces at Agra, and it is the oldest High Court in the country in continuous existence under that description.

In Uttar Pradesh the Zila Panchayat, the district tier of panchayati raj, is headed by an elected Adhyaksh, with an Up-Adhyaksh as the deputy, under the Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats Adhiniyam, 1961.

The Seventy-third Amendment, which gave panchayats a place in the Constitution by adding Part IX, Articles 243 to 243-O, and the Eleventh Schedule, came into force on that date, and 24 April is observed every year as National Panchayati Raj Day.

It empowers every High Court to issue directions, orders or writs, including the writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto and certiorari, for the enforcement of the fundamental rights and for any other purpose.

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment) Act of 2003, limits the total number of ministers including the Chief Minister to fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly, with a minimum of twelve.

It was appointed to examine the working of the Community Development Programme and the National Extension Service, and it recommended a three-tier structure of the Gram Panchayat at the village level, the Panchayat Samiti at the block level and the Zila Parishad at the district level, a scheme it called…

A member of a Legislative Council holds office for six years, and one-third of the members retire every second year, so the House is renewed in parts and is never dissolved as a whole.

Article 233(1) says that appointments of persons to be district judges in any state shall be made by the Governor of the state in consultation with the High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to that state.

Ustad Bismillah Khan of Varanasi took the shehnai, until then an instrument of weddings and temple gateways, on to the concert platform and made it a solo classical instrument.

Article 243F says that a person shall be disqualified for being chosen as, and for being, a member of a panchayat if he is so disqualified under any law relating to elections to the legislature of the state, but adds a proviso that no person shall be disqualified on the…

Firozabad, near Agra, is called the glass city of India. Its furnaces blow and press glass into bangles, chandeliers, beads, bottles and laboratory ware, and the bangle trade alone supports a very large number of small units in the town, which is why Firozabad is the standard answer whenever glass…

The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has its office at Prayagraj, the city formerly called Allahabad, which is also the principal seat of the High Court of the state.

Bhojpuri descends from Magadhi Apabhramsha and is grouped with Magahi and Maithili in the Bihari group of the Eastern Indo-Aryan family, a classification made by George Abraham Grierson in the Linguistic Survey of India.

The Twelfth Schedule was added by the Seventy-fourth Amendment and lists 18 subjects that a state legislature may entrust to municipalities under Article 243W, including urban planning and town planning, regulation of land use, roads and bridges, water supply, public health and sanitation, fire services, urban forestry, slum improvement and…

Born at Allahabad in 1861 and known as Mahamana, Malaviya founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916, collecting donations across the country for it, served four times as President of the Congress and edited the newspaper Leader.

Under Article 317, the chairman or any other member of a Public Service Commission, including a State Public Service Commission, can be removed from office only by an order of the President on the ground of misbehaviour, and only after the Supreme Court has held an inquiry on a reference…

Article 243Q provides for three kinds of municipality: a Nagar Panchayat for a transitional area, that is an area in transition from a rural area to an urban area; a Municipal Council, called the Nagar Palika Parishad in Uttar Pradesh, for a smaller urban area; and a Municipal Corporation, the…

Article 316(2) provides that a member of a Public Service Commission shall hold office for a term of six years from the date on which he enters upon his office, but a member of a State Public Service Commission or a Joint Commission shall vacate office on attaining the age…

Article 243P defines a metropolitan area as an area having a population of ten lakh or more, comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two or more municipalities or panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified as such by the Governor.