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Trade, commerce and intercourse throughout the territory of India shall be free. This is declared by which article?

  1. A.Article 19
  2. B.Article 301
  3. C.Article 304
  4. D.Article 307

Correct answer

B. Article 301

Explanation

The correct answer is B, Article 301. It opens Part XIII of the Constitution and makes India a single economic unit by declaring the freedom of trade, commerce and intercourse throughout the territory of India, subject to the restrictions permitted by Articles 302 to 305. Option A, Article 19, guarantees the fundamental freedoms, including the freedom to practise any profession or carry on any trade or business, but it protects the individual citizen against the State rather than declaring a general freedom of movement of goods between States. Option C, Article 304, is a limitation on the States: a State may tax goods imported from other States only if similar local goods are taxed in the same way, and may restrict trade only with the previous sanction of the President. Option D, Article 307, merely lets Parliament appoint an authority to carry out the purposes of Articles 301 to 304.

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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.