Indian Constitution and Schedules

• Who was the chairman of the Minorities Sub Committee in the Constituent Assembly?

Ans: Harendra Coomar Mookerjee

• In which year was the Anti Defection bill passed?

Ans: 1985

• Who was the Prime Minister of India when the Anti-Defection Bill was passed?

Ans: Rajiv Gandhi

• Which amendment to the Constitution introduced the Anti Defection Law?

Ans: 52nd Amendment

• From which country India borrowed the idea of Directive Principles?

Ans: Ireland

• Who were the leading artists to decorate the hand written copy of the Indian Constitution?

Ans: Nandalal Bose and Beohar Rammanohar Sinha

• By which amendment, the power to amend the Constitution was specifically conferred up on the Parliament?

Ans: 24th Amendment

• Which Part of the Constitution deals with the General Elections?

Ans: Part XV

• Who was the first woman to become the Chief Election Commissioner of India?

Ans: Ramadevi

• Who called Indian Constitution as 'Lawyers' Paradise?

Ans: Ivor Jennings

• Who conceptualised Indian Constitution as a 'Seamless Web'?

Ans: Granville Austin

• Who was the first to describe Indian Constitution as "Quasi-Federal'?

Ans: Ivor Jennings

• Who called the Directive Principles as a 'Cheque on a Bank payable at the convenience of the bank?

Ans: KT. Shah

• Who described Directive Principles as a ‘Veritable Dustbin of Sentiments'?

Ans: T.T. Krishnamachari

• What was the minimum voting age fixed in the original Constitution?

Ans: 21 Years

• Who addresses the first Parliament meeting after election?

Ans: President

• The National Commission for Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes came into existence as per which amendment of the Constitution?

Ans: 65th Amendment

• What was the most important influence for the preparation of our Constitution?

Ans: Govt. of India Act, 1935

• Who has the power to certify a bill as a money bill?

Ans: Lok Sabha Speaker

• India borrowed the idea of providing authority to speaker to certify a bill as money bill or not, from which country?

Ans: Britain

• Who said about Ankle 356 as such Articles will never be called into operation & that they would remain a dead letter'?

Ans: Dr. B.R Ambedkar

• The Constitutional Emergency as per Article 356 was declared for the first time in which state?

Ans: Punjab

• Indian Constitution can be amended in _____ different ways.

Ans: Three

• The President can be impeached under which Article?

Ans: Article 61

• What is described as the Indian invention in Parliamentary system?

Ans: Zero Hour

• In which year was the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition Act) enacted by the Parliament?

Ans: 1986

• Who is the only person to have served as Chief Minister of two states? 
Ans: N.D. Tiwari

• Who was the first independent MLA to become Chief Minister of a state?

Ans: Biswanath Das (Odisha)

• Who was the first film actor to become the Chief Minister of a State?

Ans: M.G. Ramachandran

• In which year was the first Finance Commission established?

Ans: 1951

• Which Article of the Constitution mentions the establishment of Finance Commission?

Ans: Article 280

• Income Tax is shared among Centre & States based on the recommendations of _____? 

Ans: Finance Commission

• The Indian Constitution originally consisted of _____ Articles.

Ans: 395 Articles

• Who was the Prime Minister of India when Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1973 (FERA)?

Ans: Indira Gandhi

• In which year was the Consumer Protection Act passed?

Ans: 1986

• Schedules are lists that categorize and tabulate bureaucratic activities and policy of the Government.

Schedules:-

• Indian Constitution had originally eight schedule

• Now the Constitution of India has Twelve Schedules.

• First schedule contains the list of States and Union Territories and their territories

• First schedule covers Articles 1 and 4

• Second Schedule now has 4 Parts:

Part A: Provisions as to the President, Governors of States.

Part B: has been deleted by the Seventh Amendment in 1956

Part C: Provisions as to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People and the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States and the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council of a State.

Part D: Provisions as to the judges of the Supreme Court and of the High Courts

Part E: Provisions as to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

• Second Schedule covers Articles 59 (3), 65 (3), 75 (6), 97, 125, 148 (3), 158 (3), 164 (5), 186 and 221.

• Third Schedule deals with forms of Oaths and Affirmations (Articles 75 (4), 99, 124(6), 148(2), 164(3), 188 and 219)

• Fourth schedule [Articles 4(1) and 80(2)]: Allocation of seats in the Council of States for each State and Union Territory.

• Fifth Schedule provides for the administration and control of Scheduled. Areas under Article 244(1))

• Sixth Schedule provides for the administration of Tribal Areas in Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram

• Seventh Schedule (Article 246) contains the Union list, State list and the concurrent list.

• Union List contains 97 subjects

• The State List contains 66 subjects

• Concurrent List contains 47 subjects

• In case of concurrent list the Union and States have concurrent powers

• Defence of India, Naval, Military and Air forces, Atomic Energy and Mineral Resources, Foreign Affairs, War and Peace, Citizenship. Pilgrimages to places outside India. Railways. Post Office Savings Rank. Ranking. Census. Insurance etc. come under Union List.

• Public Health and Sanitation, Intoxicating eating Liquors. Agriculture. Fisheries etc. are included in State List.

• Forests, Economic and Social Planning, Trade unions, Industrial and labour disputes, Charities and Charitable Institutions, Charitable and Religious endowments and Religious institutions, Price control, Electricity etc. are included in Concurrent List

• Eighth Schedule contains the languages recognized by the constitution.

• At present 22 languages are there. They are Assamese. Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada,Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu & Urdu.

• 14 languages were initially included in the Constitution.

• Through the 21st amendment Sindhi was added in 1967.

• Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali were added in 1992 by the 71st amendment.

• In 2003 Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali were added to the schedule by 92nd amendment

• Ninth Schedule that covers Article 31B includes Acts and Orders relating to land tenures, land tax, railways, industries, etc., passed by the State Governments, and Union Government.

• Ninth Schedule was added by the first amendment of the constitution in 1951

• Tenth Schedule contains the Anti-defection Act [Articles 102(2) and 191(2)]

• Tenth Schedule was inserted through the 52nd constitutional amendment in 1985

▪ Eleventh Schedule deals with the provisions of powers of panchayaths

• Eleventh Schedule was added by the 73rd constitutional amendment in 1992.

• Twelfth Schedule mentions about the provision regarding powers and responsibilities of municipalities.

• It was inserted to the constitution by the 74th amendment of 1992.