Indian Polity & Constitution MCQs

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All the options mentioned are the duties of a Child Marriage Prohibition Officer. These include:

1. Preventing child marriage by taking action.
2. Collecting evidence for effective prosecution.
3. Advising the locals not to indulge in promoting or helping or allowing solemnization of child marriage.
4. Creating awareness of the evil of such child marriage.

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The preamble to the Indian constitution was amended by the 42nd Amendment Act, 1976 whereby the words Socialist, Secular, and Integrity were added to the preamble by the 42nd Amendment Act, 1976, to ensure the economic justice and elimination of inequality in income and standard of life.

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The maximum strength of the House envisaged by the Constitution is 552, which is made up by election of upto 530 members to represent the States, upto 20 members to represent the Union Territories. Between 1952 and 2020, 2 additional members of the Anglo-Indian community were also nominated by the President of India on the advice of Government of India, which was abolished in January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019. So, at present, Constitution of India allows for a maximum of 550 members in the House, with 530 members representing the States and 20 representing the Union Territories.

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The conditions governing admissibility of questions have been laid down under rule 41 procedure and conduct of business in Lok sabha. The speaker decides whether a question or a part there of is or is not admissible under those rules and may disallow any question or a part there of.

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After the election results are declared, the party winning with the majority in the Lok Sabha is invited by the President of India to form the government. The winning party forwards a name of a candidate for the post of Prime Minister to the president. The president then appoints the selected candidate as the Prime minister.

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The “Three Language Formula” was devised in the Chief Ministers conferences held during 1961. The National Commission on Education known as the Kothari commission examined and recommended a graduated formula which was recommended by the National Policy on Education, 1968.

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The judges of subordinate courts are appointed by the Governor in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court of the concerned State. A minimum of seven years of practise as a lawyer at bar is a necessary qualification.

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Leila Seth was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and she became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court on 5 August, 1991. She was a member of the 15th Law Commission of India from 1997 to 2000, and was responsible for the amend-ments to the Hindu Succession Act that gave equal rights to daughters in joint family property.

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US President Abraham Lincoln described democracy as “government of the people, by the people, for the people” during the Gettysburg Address of 19 November, 1863. He made the address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Bhartiya Nyaya Samhita (BNS) was recently constituted as a more concise and organized version of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Decluttering various outdated sections of the IPC, the BNS has been streamlined to consist of just 20 chapters and 358 sections, in contrast to the 511 sections of the IPC. This restructuring has made it more transparent and will hopefully ensure the efficient functioning of the justice system.