Indian Polity and Constitution Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 8)

The correct answer is Employers. Public firms hire workers, so they are employers. SCOPE represents them at the ILO, UN, OECD and IOE.

The correct answer is 1996-97. The awards cover firms and individual leaders. 2010-11 is a later award year, with winners such as ONGC and GAIL.

The correct answer is Capacity Building Commission. DAKSH stands for Development of Aspiration, Knowledge, Succession & Harmony. Its third cohort studied at ISB, Hyderabad.

The correct answer is 1966, Ministry of Tourism. ITDC was incorporated on 1 October 1966. It is a PSU under the administrative control of the Ministry of Tourism. Memory hook: 1966, and tourism in the name.

The correct answer is 87.03%. That makes the government the main owner. 7.87% is the share of The Indian Hotels Company Ltd, the second-largest holder. Memory hook: 87 for the government.

The correct answer is The Indian Hotels Company Ltd. It held 7.87% of ITDC’s shares. The Government of India held 87.03%. Memory hook: a hotel company owns a slice of a hotel company.

The correct answer is Ashok Hotel, Mumbai. ITDC lists four hotels. They are The Ashok, Hotel Samrat, Kalinga Ashok and Pondicherry Ashok. Three of them are in operation. Memory hook: two in Delhi, two outside.

The correct answer is 14. ITDC also lists 1 duty-free shop at an airport. The numbers 4 and 8 are its hotels and its divisions. Memory hook: 14 by the sea, 1 by the runway.

The answer is Forty-fourth Amendment. The Forty-fourth Amendment Act, 1978 added the words, in force from 20 June 1979. Article 359 now lets the President suspend the right to move court for Part III rights, except Articles 20 and 21. Why the others fail: the Constitution text cited here records only the Forty-fourth Amendment for these words. Memory hook: 44th, 1979, Articles 20 and 21 spared.

SHREYAS’s cumulative spend across its four components, 2014-15 to 2025-26, was about ₹3,509.39 crore, benefiting 1,18,248 students. ₹472 crore was just its single-year 2025-26 budget allocation; ₹46,581.54 crore is actually the cumulative Post-Matric Scholarship total, a separate scheme.

Free Coaching requires a minimum of 16 hours of coaching a week, delivered in person. Selected students also receive a monthly stipend of ₹3,000 (local) or ₹6,000 (outstation), via Direct Benefit Transfer.

NOS’s 125 annual slots split as 115 for SC students, 6 for Denotified/Nomadic/Semi-Nomadic Tribes, and 4 for landless agricultural labourers and traditional artisans. This differs from Free Coaching’s 70:30 SC-OBC ratio, since NOS doesn’t cover OBC students at all.

The National Overseas Scholarship (NOS) funds SC students pursuing a Master’s or PhD abroad, at a university ranked in the QS World University Rankings’ top 500. Top Class Education instead funds study at premier Indian institutions.

SHREYAS stands for Scholarships for Higher Education for Young Achievers Scheme. A different, unrelated scheme with almost the same name — “Scheme for Higher Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills” — is run by the Ministry of Education for apprenticeships, not SC scholarships.

NITI Aayog released this report in December 2024, highlighting secure, affordable, flexible, and efficient housing for industrial workers as key to boosting manufacturing. It proposed a public-private partnership model with viability gap funding to build worker housing near industrial hubs, aiming to cut attrition and improve productivity. This is why NITI Aayog is the correct answer.

The answer is A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2. The 52nd Amendment introduced the anti-defection law, the 73rd Amendment established Panchayati Raj, the 61st Amendment lowered the voting age to 18, and the 86th Amendment added the Right to Education.

The answer is Arvind Subramanian, who served as Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, not as a State Governor, unlike Najma Heptulla, Ram Nath Kovind, and Acharya Dev Vrat.

Democratic rule genuinely rests on the consent of the governed and political equality among citizens. Statement 3 reverses the real democratic principle: in a democracy, the ruler is accountable to the ruled, not the other way around, so it does not describe democratic rule. This is why 1 and 2 only is the correct answer.

The answer is that minorities can establish and administer educational institutions of their choice, the core right under Article 30(1). Article 30 actually covers only linguistic and religious minorities (not ‘ethnic’), Article 26 rights are subject to public order, morality and health, and receiving government aid does not strip an institution of its minority status.

The answer is 1 and 3 only. Article 14’s guarantee is territorial, covering any person — citizen or foreigner — physically within India, but not extending to Indian citizens residing abroad.

The answer is 2 and 3 only. Article 15’s protection against discrimination is actually reserved for citizens only, while Article 16 (public employment) is also citizen-only, and Article 21 (life and liberty) extends to every person within India’s territory.

The answer is Santhali, Urdu, Konkani and Maithili, all of which are among the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule; Tulu and Bhojpuri are notably not included.

The answer is the 52nd Amendment’s anti-defection provisions, which gave the Speaker/Chairman the crucial power to decide disqualification cases under the Tenth Schedule.

The answer is the National Flying Training Institute pairing. It’s actually located in Gondia, Maharashtra, not Belgaum.