Under Article 243E, a panchayat dissolved before the end of its five-year term is reconstituted for:
- A.A fresh term of five years
- B.Only the remainder of the term that the dissolved panchayat would have continued
- C.A fixed term of six months
- D.A fixed term of one year
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, only the remainder of the term. Article 243E gives every panchayat a term of five years from the date of its first meeting, allows it to be dissolved earlier under a law in force, and requires the election to be completed within six months of the dissolution; but a panchayat constituted at such an election continues only for the rest of the period for which the dissolved body would have continued, and it gets a fresh five years only if the remainder is six months or more and the body was not dissolved.
Option A, a fresh five years, is the answer most candidates pick and is exactly what the article denies. Option C, six months, confuses the term of the new body with the outer limit within which the election must be held. Option D, one year, matches nothing in the article. The companion rule is that an election to constitute a panchayat must be completed before the expiry of its five-year term, so an elected body is never absent for long.
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Practice Questions
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- A.Rajasthan
- B.Madhya Pradesh
- C.Karnataka
- D.Andhra Pradesh
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- B.Janpad Panchayat
- C.Taluka Panchayat
- D.Mandal Parishad
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- A.Mukhiya
- B.Sarpanch
- C.Pradhan
- D.Adhyaksha
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- A.1994
- B.1997
- C.2001
- D.2006
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- A.Article 243ZA
- B.Article 243ZD
- C.Article 243ZE
- D.Article 243Y
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