Indian Polity and Constitution Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 18)

The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) serves as the NEC’s Vice-Chairman.

The 2002-amended composition lists Governors, Chief Ministers, and three President-nominated members. The Union Home Minister chairs NEC sessions but is not part of this formal membership list.

Sikkim was included as the eighth constituent state of the NEC through the North-Eastern Council (Amendment) Act, 2002.

The North Eastern Council was set up under the North-Eastern Council Act, 1971, distinct from the States Reorganisation Act that created the five Zonal Councils.

Correct is the temporary-body option. The General Assembly created UNHCR on 14 December 1950 with a limited three-year mandate. It began work on 1 January 1951.

Correct: it marked the ILO’s 50th anniversary. The ILO was created in 1919, so 1969 was fifty years later. The prize honoured international labour law that set norms for working conditions in every country.

Correct: combating hunger and acting against the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. The Nobel citation for the 2020 prize also names its contribution to better conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas.

Correct: 1954 and 1981. The 1954 prize was held back a year, and UNHCR received it in 1955. The 1981 prize honoured its work for the fundamental rights of refugees.

Correct: UNHCR. It won in 1954 and in 1981, so it is the only UN agency with two prizes. UNICEF won in 1965, the ILO in 1969 and the WFP in 2020. Each of those won once.

Correct: the Look East Policy. Act East was launched in 2014. It began as an economic idea and added political, strategic and cultural sides. India’s formal ASEAN engagement began in 1992.

Correct as the key states: Myanmar’s civil war. The waterway part of Kaladan was complete, but the road part was still under execution. The Trilateral Highway sections in Myanmar were also awarded as construction contracts with fixed completion times. Conflict has since disrupted work.

Correct as the key states: a second route to the North East. Kaladan links ports on India’s eastern seaboard to Sittwe in Myanmar and then to the Mizoram border. It is fully grant-funded, at about US$484 million.

Correct: the Agartala-Akhaura rail line. It links India with Bangladesh, which is not on the list of ASEAN members. The link is only 12.24 km long. Kaladan and the Trilateral Highway both run through Myanmar towards ASEAN.

SFIO sits under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, not the Ministry of Finance. It investigates complex corporate fraud under the Companies Act, 2013.

This is the Central Vigilance Commission’s own stated mission, frequently misattributed to the CBI in exam questions. The CBI’s actual mandate is investigating corruption, economic offences, and serious organised crime.

CEIB sits under the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, not the Ministry of Home Affairs. It coordinates economic intelligence among agencies like the ED, CBI, and DRI against economic offences specifically, not general law-enforcement coordination.

On 3 February 2026, during the Budget Session, 8 opposition MPs (7 from Congress, 1 from CPI(M)) were suspended from the Lok Sabha for unruly behaviour, including throwing paper toward the Chair, while disrupting a Union Minister’s Question Hour answer on CAPF training institutions.

The Indian Councils Act, 1892 first gave legislative council members the power to question the executive, though with six days’ notice and no supplementary questions allowed. The Maharaja of Bhinga asked the first recorded question on 16 February 1893.

A short-notice question concerns a matter of urgent public importance, and is given with less than 10 days’ notice along with reasons for the urgency. It receives an oral answer plus supplementary questions, just like a starred question.

Zero Hour begins right after Question Hour ends and runs until the day’s listed business starts. Unlike Question Hour, it has no basis in the formal Rules of Procedure — an informal Indian innovation from the early 1960s that lets MPs raise urgent matters without prior notice.

A starred question, marked with an asterisk, gets an oral answer on the floor of the House, and MPs may ask follow-up supplementary questions on it.

Rather than granting Sixth Schedule status, the Centre has used its Article 240 rule-making power for Union Territories, including the Ladakh Reservation (Amendment) Regulation 2025, which raised the local reservation cap to 85%. The government’s stated position is that the Sixth Schedule was designed specifically for the Northeast’s tribal areas.

The Bodoland Territorial Council, headquartered at Kokrajhar in Assam, was formed in 2003. It is the newest and largest of the ten Sixth Schedule Autonomous District Councils.

The Sixth Schedule sets up self-governing, directly elected District and Regional Councils with real legislative, judicial, and financial power. The Fifth Schedule takes a more protective approach, working through the Governor and a Tribes Advisory Council, with no separately elected body.

A District Council has up to 30 members: 4 nominated by the Governor and 26 elected by adult franchise, each serving a five-year term.