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Who has recommended that the maximum size of the council may be fixed in a range between 10 to 15 percents of the strength of the respective Legislative Assembly ?
Answer: B
The key gives the Second Administrative Reforms Commission (2005-2009).
The size of a state council of ministers is now limited by the Constitution (Ninety-first Amendment, 2003) to 15 per cent of the strength of the Legislative Assembly, with a minimum of 12 ministers. The Administrative Reforms Commissions are the bodies that examine the machinery of government, and a ceiling on council size is one of the questions they have considered.
I could not find a source that states the Second ARC's recommendation as a range of 10 to 15 per cent, so that attribution is the key's, not one I confirmed. The Sarkaria and Punchhi Commissions studied Union-state relations rather than the machinery of ministries, so the key's choice among the Administrative Reforms Commissions is the likeliest of the four, but I could not tell the First ARC from the Second on the evidence found.
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