Indian Polity and Constitution Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 37)

He wrote to Nehru that it was wrong for the Executive to issue Ordinances just because Parliament was short on time.

Nehru called him the ‘Father of the Lok Sabha,’ though the two also had real institutional disagreements.

He was elected Speaker of the Constituent Assembly (Legislative) on 17 November 1947; this body was renamed the Provisional Parliament from 26 November 1949.

The nominating committee includes the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, and a person elected by the Council’s own members.

The PCI can only warn, admonish, or censure — it has no binding enforcement power to fine or suspend anyone, as it acknowledged in Ajay Goswami v. Union of India (2007).

The Council has a Chairman and 28 other members, mostly representing journalists, newspaper owners, and news agencies, serving three-year terms.

The Council was dissolved in 1975-76 when the 1965 Act was repealed, then re-established under the Press Council Act, 1978.

The PCI was first set up under the Press Council Act, 1965, following the First Press Commission’s 1954 recommendation.

CIBMS was sanctioned on 29 January 2016, after the Pathankot attack, combining physical fencing with sensors, cameras, and radars.

The answer is Kalaichar, Meghalaya, on 23 July 2011. A news report datelined 23 July says two ministers inaugurated it that Saturday. Kalaichar is one of the four border haats that a 2017 Rajya Sabha reply listed as working.

Transferring territory needed a Constitutional Amendment; this came only in 2015, via the 100th Amendment Act — not the 111th, which is instead the number of enclaves transferred.

It was set up within the MHA in January 2004, to coordinate fencing, floodlighting, infrastructure, and Integrated Check Posts along India’s land borders.

PTI-Bhasha is PTI’s Hindi-language wire service, launched alongside other regional-language and photo services during its 1980s modernisation.

PTI became fully independent of Reuters in 1953, four years after it began full operations in 1949.

PTI took over operations from the Associated Press of India, which had run under Reuters.

PTI operates as a non-profit cooperative, owned collectively by more than 450 Indian newspapers, which are also its primary clients.

After the NMC Act, 2019, NEET-UG became the sole entrance test for MBBS/BDS admissions, including at AIIMS and JIPMER, which earlier held their own exams.

The correct answer is a society, under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. The Union Cabinet approved NTA on 10 November 2017. No Act of Parliament created it, so it is not a statutory body.

Fundamental Duties are moral obligations on citizens and are not legally enforceable — there is no provision in the Constitution for direct legal sanction if a citizen fails to perform them.

Several existing laws indirectly give legal teeth to the spirit of the Fundamental Duties, including the ones enumerated here, which relate to protecting civil rights and wildlife.

‘Internal disturbance’ was replaced with the narrower ‘armed rebellion’ by the 44th Amendment, to prevent misuse.

Leila Seth became Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court in 1991, the first woman to lead any Indian High Court.

Telangana’s creation from Andhra Pradesh in 2014 used Article 3, the same provision used for most state and Union Territory reorganisations.