SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Article 231 says that Parliament may by law establish a common High Court for two or more states, or for two or more states and a Union Territory, and it is the article under which the Punjab and Haryana High Court serves Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.

The High Court of Judicature at Lahore went to Pakistan with the partition, and a new High Court for East Punjab was set up at Shimla on 15 August 1947; its first Chief Justice was Sir Eric Weston, and the court functioned from Shimla until the new capital at Chandigarh…

The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 carved Haryana out of Punjab on 1 November 1966, transferred the hill areas to Himachal Pradesh and made Chandigarh a Union Territory; from that day the High Court of Punjab became the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a common High Court for the two states…

The common High Court of Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh sits at Chandigarh, where the court moved in 1955, and it has no permanent Bench anywhere else, so a writ petition from any district of Haryana is filed there.

Article 243I requires the Governor of a state to constitute a Finance Commission at the end of every fifth year 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, what grants-in-aid they should…

The Twelfth Schedule was inserted by the 74th Amendment Act, 1992 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, water supply, public health and sanitation, slum improvement, urban poverty alleviation, fire services, burials…

Article 243Q provides three kinds of municipality: a Nagar Panchayat for a transitional area, that is an area turning from rural into urban, a Municipal Council, the Nagar Parishad, for a smaller urban area, and a Municipal Corporation, the Nagar Nigam, for a larger urban area.

Article 243K for panchayats and Article 243ZA for municipalities vest the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of these elections in a State Election Commission consisting of a State Election Commissioner appointed by the Governor.

Bihar amended its panchayat law and held the panchayat elections of 2006 with fifty per cent of the seats, and of the posts of Mukhiya, Sarpanch, Pramukh and Adhyaksha, reserved for women, which took it well beyond the one-third floor fixed by Article 243D and made it the first state…

The Eleventh Schedule was added by the 73rd Amendment Act, 1992 and lists 29 subjects, among them agriculture, land improvement, minor irrigation, animal husbandry, rural housing, drinking water, roads, rural electrification, poverty alleviation programmes, primary and secondary schools, markets and fairs and public distribution.

Article 243A, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, says that a Gram Sabha may exercise such powers and perform such functions at the village level as the legislature of a state may by law provide, so the body is constitutional but its powers are decided by state law.

The Gram Kachahari is a feature of the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006 and is a bench of the directly elected Sarpanch and the elected Panches of the panchayat area; it decides small disputes between villagers and may impose a fine in the matters the Act lists, while serious offences…

Under the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006 the head of a Gram Panchayat is the Mukhiya, who is elected directly by all the voters of the panchayat area, with an Up-Mukhiya as deputy chosen by the elected ward members.

The 73rd Amendment Act was passed by Parliament in 1992 and was brought into force on 24 April 1993, which is why that date is observed every year as National Panchayati Raj Day.

The United Provinces Panchayat Raj Act was passed in 1947, before the Constitution came into force, and it still governs the Gram Panchayat, with its Pradhan, Up-Pradhan and panchs, as well as the Nyaya Panchayat, the judicial panchayat headed by a Sarpanch that Uttar Pradesh has retained while most states…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…