Total prohibition, which removed liquor excise from the state’s own tax revenue, came into force in Bihar in which year?
- A.2012
- B.2014
- C.2016
- D.2019
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, 2016. Bihar enforced total prohibition from 5 April 2016 and then enacted the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, which bans the manufacture, trade, storage and consumption of liquor in the state. Because of it the state budget carries almost no excise receipt from liquor, and the gap has to be met from other own taxes, central transfers and borrowing, a point examiners like to join to the revenue side of the budget.
Option A, 2012, and option B, 2014, are too early: in those years liquor was still sold and excise was one of the larger own tax heads. Option D, 2019, is too late and is sometimes picked by candidates who recall later amendments to the Act rather than its commencement. Along with the year, remember that the state’s largest own tax head after prohibition is the State Goods and Services Tax, followed by stamp duty and registration, motor vehicle tax and land revenue.
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Practice Questions
View allUnder which Article of the Constitution is the annual financial statement, that is the budget, laid before the legislature of a state such as Bihar?
- A.Article 112
- B.Article 202
- C.Article 266
- D.Article 293
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Article 202 requires the Governor to cause a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for every financial year, called the annual financial statement, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature.
Read the full explanation →Money withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund of Bihar after the demands for grants are voted is authorised by:
- A.A Finance Bill
- B.An Appropriation Bill
- C.A vote on account
- D.A supplementary demand
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Under Article 204 an Appropriation Bill is introduced after the Vidhan Sabha has voted the demands for grants, and it alone makes the withdrawal of money from the Consolidated Fund of the State lawful; no money may leave that fund except under an appropriation made by law.
Read the full explanation →In India, which of the following is NOT a type of budget?
- A.Balanced
- B.Surplus
- C.Losses
- D.Reserved
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A budget is classified by the relation between receipts and expenditure, which gives three kinds only: a balanced budget, in which estimated receipts equal estimated expenditure; a surplus budget, in which receipts exceed expenditure; and a deficit budget, in which expenditure exceeds receipts.
Read the full explanation →The Contingency Fund of a State, from which the Chief Minister can meet unforeseen expenditure, is provided by which Article?
- A.Article 199
- B.Article 203
- C.Article 267(2)
- D.Article 280
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Article 267(2) allows the legislature of a state to establish a Contingency Fund of the State by law, placed at the disposal of the Governor, from which advances can be made for unforeseen expenditure pending authorisation by the legislature, the amount being recouped later through a supplementary demand.
Read the full explanation →Bihar lost almost its entire mineral belt when which state was carved out of it in November 2000?
- A.Chhattisgarh
- B.Jharkhand
- C.Uttarakhand
- D.Odisha
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The Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 created Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, and with the Chhotanagpur plateau Bihar lost its coal, iron ore, copper, bauxite and mica, along with the heavy industry at Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Ranchi.
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