Indian Polity and Constitution Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 39)

The report listed 2,399 backward castes and communities nationally; 837 of these were classed as ‘most backward.’

The Commission was set up under Article 340, to identify socially and educationally backward classes.

The Census Act, 1948, governs the census and predates the Constitution; all censuses since 1951 have been held under it.

Census-taking is a Union subject at entry 69 of the Seventh Schedule, under Article 246.

R.S. Pathak served as India’s 18th Chief Justice before joining the ICJ in 1989, a different path from Singh’s.

He served as Secretary to the President from 1966 to 1972, just before becoming Chief Election Commissioner.

Singh was the first Indian to serve as ICJ President, capping a career that began in India’s civil service.

Singh became the first Indian judge at the ICJ in 1973, straight after his term as Chief Election Commissioner.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who also chaired the Constitution’s Drafting Committee, served as India’s first Law Minister.

The Charter Act of 1833 first vested legislative power in a single authority, the Governor General in Council, beginning the line of institutions that led to today’s Ministry.

The Ministry’s three departments are Legislative, Legal Affairs, and Justice. The Department of Official Language is real, but it sits under the Ministry of Home Affairs, not Law and Justice.

The portal makes Vidhi Sahitya Prakashan’s Hindi-language legal publications, including case judgments and journals, available to lawyers, students, and citizens in one place.

The Swaran Singh Committee, set up by the government in 1976, recommended the inclusion of a chapter on Fundamental Duties in the Constitution.

Fundamental Duties were added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976 (not present since 1950, so II is false), following the Swaran Singh Committee’s recommendation (III true), and Article 51A applies specifically to “every citizen of India” (IV true); they are not directly enforceable through writ jurisdiction since there’s no legal sanction (I false).

The interim order barred registering fresh suits under the Act and passing final or effective orders in pending cases, until further notice.

Leila Seth was also the first woman to top the London Bar exams, and later the first woman senior counsel to practice before the Supreme Court.

The 103rd Amendment enables reservation of up to 10% for Economically Weaker Sections, in educational admissions and civil-post/service appointments.