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The correct answer is 1 and 2 only.In News

• The HINDU: The Union Cabinet chaired by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved the extension of the term of the Twenty-second Law Commission of India up to 31st August 2024.

Key PointsLaw Commission of India:

• The Law Commission of India is neither a constitutional body nor a statutory body, it is an executive body established by an order of the Government of India. Its major function is to work for legal reforms.
• The Commission is established for a fixed tenure and works as an advisory body to the Ministry of Law and Justice. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
• Its membership primarily comprises legal experts.
• The Government of India established the First Law Commission of Independent India in 1955 with the then Attorney-General of India, Mr M. C. Setalvad, as its Chairman. Hence, statement 2 is correct.
• Since then twenty-two more Law Commissions have been appointed, each with a three-year term.
• The Chairperson and Members of the Twenty-second Law Commission have joined office recently and have taken up several pending projects for examination and report, being the work in progress. Hence, statement 3 is not correct.
• Therefore, the tenure of the Twenty-second Law Commission has been extended up to 31st August 2024.
• The Law Commission, on a reference made to it by the Central Government or suo-motu, undertakes research in law and review of existing laws in India for making reforms therein and enacting new legislation.
• It also undertakes studies and research for bringing reforms in the justice delivery systems for elimination of delay in procedures, speedy disposal of cases, reduction in the cost of litigation etc.

The correct answer is Maheshwar Hazari.

Key Points

• The new Bihar cabinet was expanded on 16th August 2022 and there are 31 ministers in the current Nitish Kumar cabinet.
• Chief Minister: Nitish Kumar – JD (U)
• Deputy CMs: Tejashwi Yadav (RJD)
• Speaker: Awadh Bihari Chaudhary (since 26 Aug 2022)
• Deputy Speaker: Maheshwar Hazari (since 24 March 2021)

Important Points

• Bihar Legislative Assembly:
  • The Bihar Legislative Assembly, also known as the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of the state that was held in 1952.
  • The total strength of membership in the Assembly was 331, including one nominated member.
  • Dr. Shri Krishna Singh became the first Leader of the House and the Chief Minister, Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh was elected the first Deputy Leader of the Assembly and became the state's first Deputy Chief Minister.
  • It was reduced to 318 during the second General Elections.
  • In 1977, the total number of elected members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly was further raised from 318 to 324.

The correct answer is Both 1 and 2.In News

• Demand gains momentum for making Rajasthani the official language ahead of budget.

Key PointsOfficial Language:

• An official language is one that has been granted special status by a country, state, or other entity.
• Typically, the word "official language" refers to the language used by a government for example court, legislature, and/or administration.
• Part XVII of the Constitution with Articles 343 to 351 deals with the Official Language
• Subclause-3 of the Art. 343 which states that “Parliament may by law provide for the use of the English language”.
• Article 343 of the Indian Constitution states The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script.
• According to Article 345, the legislature of a state may adopt any one or more of the state's official languages, including Hindi, like the language or languages to be used for all or some of the state's official purposes. Hence, Statements 1 and 2 are correct.
• Article 343(1) of our constitution specifically provided;
  • Hindi in Devanagari script shall be the official language of the Union.
  • For official purposes, the international form of Indian numerals shall be used.
  • In the eighth schedule of the Indian constitution, there are 22 languages that have been recognized (Originally 14 languages were mentioned).​

The correct answer is (i), (iii), and (iv).

Key Points

• The following taxes fall under the State List of the Indian Constitution: Stamp Duty, Luxury Tax, and Entertainment Tax.​
  • Taxes Levied by the State-
    • Sales Tax and VAT
    • Professional Tax
    • Stamp Duty
    • Luxury Tax
    • Entertainment Tax
    • Motor Vehicles Tax
    • Tax on Vehicles Entering State
    • Transportation of Passengers and Goods Tax
    • Tax on Agricultural Income
    • Tax on Land and Buildings
    • Capitation Taxes
    • Tax on Mineral Rights

Additional Information

•  Goods and Services Tax
  • It is an indirect tax that was introduced on 1 July 2017.
  • It subsumed many central and state indirect taxes.
  • It is a destination-based tax.
  • GST council is responsible for increasing and decreasing tax slabs and transferring subjects from one slab to another.
• Following indirect taxes were subsumed under GST-
  • Taxes collected by Centre
    • Central Excise Duty, Duties of Excise, Additional Duties of Excise, Additional Duties of Customs, Special Additional Duty of Customs, Service Tax, and Central Surcharges and Cesses so far as they relate to the supply of goods and services.
  • Taxes collected by States
    • State VAT, Central Sales Tax, Luxury Tax, Entry Tax, Entertainment, and Amusement Tax, Taxes on advertisements, Purchase Tax, Taxes on lotteries, Betting and Gambling, State Surcharges, and Cesses so far as they relate to the supply of goods and services.
• Some goods are beyond the scope of GST.
• These are Petroleum, High-speed diesel, Petrol, Natural gas, Aviation fuel, and Liquor.
• Export Duty, Basic Customs Duty, Toll Tax, Stamp Duty, Property Tax, Road & Passenger Tax, and Electricity Duty were not subsumed under GST.
• The seventh schedule under Article 246 of the constitution deals with the division of powers between the union and the states.
  • It contains three lists: Union List, State List, and Concurrent List.
  • The union list details the subjects on which Parliament may make laws while the state list details those under the purview of state legislatures.
  • The concurrent list, on the other hand, has subjects over which both Parliament and state legislatures have jurisdiction.

The correct answer is 1 only.In News

• The Election Commission of India (EC) has begun the process of delimitation of Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies in Assam, based on the 2001 Census data.

Key PointsDelimitation:

• It is the responsibility of a high-level body known as the Delimitation Commission or a Boundary Commission, whose orders have the force of law and cannot be challenged in court. 
• Article 82 of the Indian Constitution provides for establishing such a commission through a Parliamentary act.  Hence statement 1 is correct.
• The orders will come into effect on a date determined by India’s President. 
• Assam currently has 14 Lok Sabha and 126 Assembly constituencies. 
• The last delimitation of constituencies in Assam was done in 1976 on the basis of the 1971 Census. Hence statement 2 is incorrect.
• In 1971, Assam’s population was 1.46 crore, which increased to 2.66 crore (2001) and to 3.12 crore (2011).

The correct answer is Prem Behari Narain Raizada.

Key Points

• Prem Behari Narain Raizada (Saxena) is the man who hand wrote the original Constitution of India.
• Raizada over his desk in the Constitution Hall (now Constitution Club) for six months to handwrite 395 articles, 8 schedules, and a preamble in both English and Hindi.
• He used No.303 pens for English calligraphy and Hindoo dip-pen nib from Birmingham for Hindi calligraphy. 

Additional Information

• It all began on August 29, 1947, when the Constituent Assembly set up a Drafting Committee to formulate a Draft Constitution of India.
• After 11 sessions and endless debates and amendments, the Constitution for the newly-independent nation was ready.
• Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wanted it handwritten in a flowing italic style.
• Prem Behari Narain Raizada (Saxena), a noted calligraphist, was chosen for the task.
• The bespectacled Raizada held a degree from St Stephen’s College (New Delhi) and worked for Govan Brothers (Raymond Eustace Grant Govan, the founder of Govan Brothers, was the first President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India).

Important Points 

• Its weight: 3.75 kilograms.
• Its title: Constitution of India.
• The original copies of the Constitution are kept in special helium-filled cases in the Parliament's library.
• The original manuscript of the Constitution of India that came into force on January 26, 1950.
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The correct answer is Provisions regarding disqualification on ground of defection.

Key Points

• The Tenth schedule recently in news regarding the Supreme court's notice to Goa Assembly Speaker on MLA disqualification proceedings.
• The 52nd Amendment Act of 1985 provided for the disqualification of the members of Parliament and the state legislatures on the ground of defection from one political party to another.
• The Tenth schedule added under the 52nd amendment act.

Important Points

The correct answer is Canada.

Important Points

• The Federal System of India is governed in terms of the Constitution of India.
• The country of India is also referred to as the Sovereign, Secular, Democratic Republic and has a Parliamentary form of government.
• The nation is basically working according to the Indian Constitution, which was adopted on the 26th of November 1949.
• The federal nature of the Indian constitution was adopted from the Constitution of Canada.

Key Points

• The head of the Executive Union is the President of the country In the Federal System of India.
• The real political, as well as social power, resides in the hands of the Prime Minister, who in turn heads the Council of Ministers.
• According to the Federal System of India, the Prime Minister and his Council of Ministers will advise and help the President.
• It is clearly stated in Article 74 (1) of the Indian Constitution, 
  • The Council of Members is answerable to the Lok Sabha or the House of People, as per the Federal System prevailing in India.
  • The Indian Constitution is subject to change, however, this change can only occur after the bill is passed with a majority of votes in the Parliament House.
  • Legislative powers are shared between the State Legislatures and the Parliament, while the rest of the powers are in the hands of the Parliament of India.
  • The Federal System in India conveys that the President, the Prime Minister, the Council of Ministers, and the Vice-President, together form the Union Executive

The correct answer is Both Hindi and English.

• The original copies of the Indian Constitution, written in Hindi and English.

​Key Points

• The original Constitution of India was handwritten by Prem Behari Narain Raizada in a flowing italic style with beautiful calligraphy.
• Each page was beautified and decorated by artists from Shantiniketan.
• The original constitution had two copies each written in Hindi and English, are kept in special helium-filled cases in the Library of the Parliament of India.
• With 25 parts containing 448 articles and 12 schedules, the Indian Constitution is the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world.

​Additional Information                 

• Important facts related to the Indian Constitution
  • The Constituent Assembly, which first met on December 9, 1946, took precisely 2 years, 11 months, and 18 days to come up with the final draft.
  • When the draft was prepared and put for debate and discussion, over 2000 amendments were made, before it was finalized.
  • The drafting of the Constitution was finally complete on 26th November 1949.
  • But, it was legally enforced only after two months on 26th January 1950.
  • Which came to be known as Republic Day.
• Our Constitution makers took inspiration from various other Constitutions while drafting the one for our country, which is why the Indian Constitution is often called a bag of borrowings.
  • The concept of Five Year Plans (FYP) was taken from the USSR.
  • The Directive Principles (socio-economic rights) were taken from Ireland.
  • The ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity in our Preamble have been taken from the French Revolution, which is also the French motto.
  • The Preamble to our Constitution was inspired by the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America, which also starts with "We the people".
  • Fundamental rights adopted by American Constitution.
• In the beginning, the Right to Property was also one of the fundamental rights.
  • Article 31 of our constitution said that "No person shall be deprived of his property save by authority of law.
  • However, the 44^th Amendment, in 1978, deleted it.

The correct answer is ​Land and buildings.

• The Constitution of India provides for a division of powers between the Union (Centre) and states.
• It divides all the subjects into 3 lists – Union List, State List, and Concurrent List.
• The Union List describe the subjects under the control Centre Government, the State List describes the subjects under the jurisdiction of states being the Concurrent List describes the subjects which are under the joint jurisdiction of the Centre of States.
• Subjects of Three Lists:
  • The Union List Subjects (97 Subjects).
  • State List (66 Subjects).
  • Concurrent List (47 Subjects).
• The subjects which do not fall in these lists that is residuary subjects have been given to the Centre.

Key Points 

• State List enumerates the subjects on which each State Legislature can legislate and such laws operate within the territory of each state.
• The main subjects of the State List are:
  • Public order, police, state court fees, prisons, local government, public health and sanitation, hospitals and dispensaries, pilgrimages within India, intoxicating liquors, relief of disabled and unemployable, libraries, communications, agriculture, animal husbandry, water supply, irrigation and canals, fisheries, road passenger tax and goods tax, taxes on land and building, capitation tax and others.

The correct answer is 47.

• Lok Sabha considered as the lower house.
• It has seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
• The number of seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes is 41.
• The number of seats reserved for scheduled tribes was increased from 41 to 47 in the 15th Lok Sabha elections.
• The maximum strength of the House envisaged by the Constitution is 552, 
• By-election of up to 530 members to represent the States, up to 20 members to represent the Union Territories and two members of the Anglo-Indian Community to be nominated by the Hon'ble Presiden

Additional Information

• 131 seats out of the 543 Lok Sabha seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
• This is approximately 24% of all the seats.
• 84 seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes, and 47 seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes.
• These numbers are changed by the Delimitation Commission of India based on changes in the population. 

The correct answer is By indirect elections by the members of the Provincial Legislative Assemblies established in 1935.

• The members of this assembly were elected indirectly, that is by the members of the provincial assemblies by the method of a single transferable vote of proportional representation.

Additional Information 

• Important facts about the Constituent Assembly
  • In 1934, M N Roy first proposed the idea of a constituent assembly.
  • The demand was taken up by the Congress Party in 1935 as an official demand.
  • The British accepted this in the August Offer of 1940.
  • Under the Cabinet Mission plan of 1946, elections were held for the formation of the constituent assembly.
  • The members of this assembly were elected indirectly, that is by the members of the provincial assemblies by the method of a single transferable vote of proportional representation
  • The constituent assembly was formed for the purpose of writing a constitution for independent India
  • Initially, the number of members was 389.
  • After partition, some of the members went to Pakistan and the number came down to 299.
  • Out of this, 229 were from the British provinces and 70 were nominated from the princely states.
  • Dr Sachchidananda Sinha was the first temporary chairman of the Constituent Assembly.
  • Later, Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected as the President and its Vice President was Harendra Coomar Mookerjee.
  • BN Rau was the constitutional advisor.
  • The assembly first met on 9 December 1946.
  • On 13 December 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru moved the ‘Objective Resolution’.
  • The National Flag of the Union was adopted on 22 July 1947.
  • The final document had 22 parts, 395 articles and 8 schedules.
  • The assembly had met for 11 sessions.
  • The last session was held during 14 – 26 November 1949.
  • The constitution was passed and adopted by the assembly on 26 November 1949.
  • On 24 January 1950, ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was adopted as the national anthem.
  • The constitution came into force on 26 January 1950 (which is celebrated as Republic Day).

Key Points

Constitution of India: 

• The Constitution of India came into force on January 26, 1950.
• The constitution is the foundational law of any country.
• It took 2 years 11 months and 18 days to create the constitution of India.
• The process was initiated on 9th December 1946 and came to an end on 26th November 1949.
• 11 sessions covering 165 days were held in this duration.
• Some provisions of the constitution came into force on 26th November 1949 while a major part came into force on 26th January 1950.

​Thus, on 26 January 1950, the constitution of India was implemented.

• The Constituent Assembly met for the first time on 9 December 1946.
• On the basis of the framework provided by the Cabinet Mission, a Constituent Assembly was constituted on 9th December 1946.
• The Constitution-making body was elected by the Provincial Legislative Assembly constituting 389 members who included 93 from the Princely States and 296 from British India.
• The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly took place on December 9, 1946, in New Delhi with Dr Sachidanand being elected as the interim President of the Assembly.
• However, on December 11, 1946, Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected as the President and H.C. Mukherjee as the Vice-President of the Constituent Assembly.

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• Functions of the Constituent Assembly
  • Framing the Constitution.
  • Enacting laws and involved in the decision-making process.
  • It adopted the National flag on July 22, 1947.
  • It accepted and approved India's membership in the British Commonwealth in May 1949.
  • It elected Dr Rajendra Prasad as the first President of India on January 24, 1950.
  • It adopted the National anthem on January 24, 1950.
  • It adopted the National song on January 24, 1950.