Static general knowledge is six of the seven lines of the General Studies Paper-I syllabus in the UPSC CSE notice: History of India and the Indian National Movement; Indian and World Geography; Indian Polity and Governance; Economic and Social Development; Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change; and General Science. The Commission tests understanding rather than recall, through statements to be judged correct or incorrect, pairs to be matched and assertion-reason items, and it likes the edges of a topic: a lesser-known provision of the Constitution, a river's tributary, a species' conservation status, the mandate of a statutory body. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for UPSC, written as short facts and tables, in English and Hindi, with each note linked to the current affairs and previous-year questions on the same topic. Start with Polity and Modern History, which carry the most questions, then Geography, the Economy, Environment, Ancient and Medieval culture and Science. Read a note, solve its PYQs, take its quiz, and come back to it in your monthly revision. A candidate who knows these notes and reads the daily current affairs has covered the syllabus the notice prescribes for Paper-I.
The elected head of a Gram Panchayat in Madhya Pradesh is called the:
In Madhya Pradesh the voters of the panchayat area elect the Sarpanch directly, along with the Panches of the wards, and the Panches then choose an Up-Sarpanch from among themselves.
Read the full explanation →In Madhya Pradesh, the panchayat at the block level is known as the:
The middle tier of panchayati raj in Madhya Pradesh is the Janpad Panchayat, set up for a development block, and it is headed by an Adhyaksha elected by its own elected members, with an Up-Adhyaksha as deputy.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first in India to constitute panchayats and hold panchayat elections under the 73rd Constitutional Amendment?
The 73rd Amendment came into force on 24 April 1993 and gave the states one year to bring their laws in line with Part IX.
Read the full explanation →Which Article gives a High Court the power of superintendence over all courts and tribunals within its territorial jurisdiction?
Article 227 gives every High Court superintendence over all courts and tribunals throughout the territories in relation to which it exercises jurisdiction; it may call for returns, make rules for their practice and prescribe the forms of their records, though the power does not extend to courts and tribunals under…
Read the full explanation →Recruitment to Group C and Group D posts under the Government of Haryana is made by which body?
HSSC, with its office at Panchkula, recruits to the Group C and Group D posts of the state government and its boards and corporations, and candidates first qualify a Common Eligibility Test before appearing for the examination of a particular group of posts.
Read the full explanation →What is the term of office of a member of a State Public Service Commission such as HPSC?
Article 316 fixes this term for the chairman and members of a State Public Service Commission and of a Joint Public Service Commission, and the appointment is made by the Governor of the state.
Read the full explanation →A member of the Haryana Public Service Commission can be removed from office by:
Article 317 provides that the chairman or a member of a State Public Service Commission may be removed from office only by order of the President, on the ground of misbehaviour, after the Supreme Court has held an inquiry and reported that he ought to be removed; the President may…
Read the full explanation →A judge of a High Court takes the oath of office before which authority?
Article 219 says that every person appointed to be a judge of a High Court shall, before entering upon his office, make and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the Governor of the state, or some person appointed by him, in the form set out in the Third Schedule.
Read the full explanation →A judge of a High Court holds office until he attains the age of:
Article 217 provides that a judge of a High Court shall hold office until he attains the age of sixty-two years, a limit raised from sixty by the 15th Amendment Act, 1963.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution allows one High Court to be established for two or more states?
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.
Read the full explanation →After partition, the High Court of East Punjab was established in 1947 at which place?
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…
Read the full explanation →From which date has the court been known as the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
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…
Read the full explanation →The Punjab and Haryana High Court has its seat at which city?
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.
Read the full explanation →Under which Article is the Governor required to constitute a State Finance Commission every five years to review the finances of the panchayats?
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…
Read the full explanation →The Twelfth Schedule of the Constitution, which lists the subjects that may be entrusted to municipalities, contains how many items?
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…
Read the full explanation →Under Article 243Q, a Nagar Panchayat is constituted for which kind of area?
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.
Read the full explanation →Elections to the panchayats and the municipal bodies of Bihar are conducted by which authority?
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.
Read the full explanation →From which panchayat election did Bihar reserve fifty per cent of the seats for women, becoming the first state in India to do so?
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…
Read the full explanation →How many subjects are listed in the Eleventh Schedule of the Constitution, which may be transferred to panchayats?
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.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution provides for the Gram Sabha, the body of all registered voters of a village?
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.
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