Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :List - IList - III. Deletion of fundamental right to freedom to acquire, hold and dispose of property.(a) Constitution (Forty-Second Amendment) Act.II. Insertion of the word 'integrity' to the Preamble of the Constitution.(b) Constitution (Forty-Fourth Amendment) Act.III. Inclusion of right to education as fundamental right under Article 21A(c) Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act.IV. Insertion of Clause(5) in Article 15.(d) Constitution (Ninety-Third Amendment) Act.Codes : I II III IV

The correct match is I-(b), II-(a), III-(c), IV-(d).The right to acquire, hold and dispose of property was removed from the fundamental rights by the Forty-Fourth Amendment (b).The word 'integrity' was inserted into the Preamble by the Forty-Second Amendment (a).Article 21A, the right to education, was inserted by the Eighty-sixth Amendment (c).Clause (5) of Article 15, on admission to educational institutions, was inserted by the Ninety-Third Amendment (d).The other codes swap the first two or the last two, and so attach an Amendment to a change it did not make.

Match List - I with the List - II referring to Amendments in the Constitution and the provisions added :List - IList - II(A) 1st Amendment(1) Sindhi Language added(B) 21st Amendment(2) Voting age reduced from 21 to 18(C) 52nd Amendment(3) Ninth Schedule inserted(D) 61st Amendment(4) Tenth Schedule insertedSelect the correct answer from the options given below :

The correct matching is (A)-(3), (B)-(1), (C)-(4), (D)-(2).1st Amendment (1951) inserted the Ninth Schedule, to protect land reform laws from challenge.21st Amendment (1967) added Sindhi to the Eighth Schedule.52nd Amendment (1985) inserted the Tenth Schedule, the anti-defection law.61st Amendment (1988) reduced the voting age from 21 to 18.The options pairing the 1st Amendment with Sindhi, or the 52nd with the voting age, mix up these four.

Amendment of the Constitution and Basic Structure Questions and Answers

Q: Which one of the following cases decided by the Supreme Court led to First Amendment in the Indian Constitution ?

The case is State of Madras vs Champak Dorairajan (usually cited as Champakam Dorairajan).In 1951 the Supreme Court struck down the Madras government's Communal G.O., which allotted college seats by caste and community, as contrary to Article 29(2). Parliament responded with the First Amendment, 1951, which inserted Article 15(4) permitting special provision for socially and educationally backward classes.Shankari Prasad (1951) came after the amendment and upheld its validity. The Supreme Court's decision in Bihar vs Kameshwar Singh was given in 1952, also after it. Chintamani Rao (1950) concerned restrictions on trade and is not the case tied to the First Amendment.

Q: Which one of the following Amendments of the Constitution has given Delhi the status of National Capital Territory ?

Delhi became the National Capital Territory under the 69th Amendment.The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991, inserted Articles 239AA and 239AB, renaming the Union Territory of Delhi the National Capital Territory and giving it a Legislative Assembly and a Council of Ministers.The 61st Amendment (1989) lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, the 71st (1992) added Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali to the Eighth Schedule, and the 79th (1999) extended reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in legislatures.

Q: Consider the following facts and arrange them in correct chronological order starting from the earliest to the last activity :I. Fundamental Duties were added in the Constitution of India.II. Declaration of Emergency due to Chinese invasion.III. Right to Information Act.IV. 73rd Amendment Act for Panchayati Raj.Select the correct answer from the code given below :

The correct order is II, I, IV, III.II. The Emergency was proclaimed in October 1962, during the Chinese invasion.I. Fundamental Duties were added as Article 51A by the 42nd Amendment of 1976.IV. The 73rd Amendment Act, giving constitutional status to Panchayati Raj, was passed in 1992 and came into force in 1993.III. The Right to Information Act was passed in 2005.Any order that does not begin with the 1962 Emergency, or that puts the RTI Act before 1992, is wrong.

41.

Which one of the following cases decided by the Supreme Court led to First Amendment in the Indian Constitution ?

A.Chintamani Rao vs State of M.P
B.Bihar Rajya vs Kameshwar Singh
C.Shankari Prasad vs Union of India
D.State of Madras vs Champak Dorairajan

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: D

The case is State of Madras vs Champak Dorairajan (usually cited as Champakam Dorairajan).

In 1951 the Supreme Court struck down the Madras government's Communal G.O., which allotted college seats by caste and community, as contrary to Article 29(2). Parliament responded with the First Amendment, 1951, which inserted Article 15(4) permitting special provision for socially and educationally backward classes.

Shankari Prasad (1951) came after the amendment and upheld its validity. The Supreme Court's decision in Bihar vs Kameshwar Singh was given in 1952, also after it. Chintamani Rao (1950) concerned restrictions on trade and is not the case tied to the First Amendment.

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42.

Which one of the following Amendments of the Constitution has given Delhi the status of National Capital Territory ?

A.61st
B.69th
C.71st
D.79th

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: B

Delhi became the National Capital Territory under the 69th Amendment.

The Constitution (Sixty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1991, inserted Articles 239AA and 239AB, renaming the Union Territory of Delhi the National Capital Territory and giving it a Legislative Assembly and a Council of Ministers.

The 61st Amendment (1989) lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, the 71st (1992) added Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali to the Eighth Schedule, and the 79th (1999) extended reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in legislatures.

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43.

The power of the Parliament to a mend the Constitution of India is a constituent power laid down in Article 368 by

A.Twenty Fourth Amendment Act
B.Twenty Sixth Amendment Act
C.Forty Second Amendment Act
D.Forty Fourth Amendment Act

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The power of Parliament to amend the Constitution was spelt out as a constituent power in Article 368 by the Twenty-fourth Amendment (1971), so (A) is correct. It was enacted after Golak Nath (1967) had held that Parliament could not amend the Fundamental Rights, and it said that Article 368 contains both the power and the procedure and that the President must give assent to an amendment bill. The 26th Amendment in option (B) abolished the privy purses. The 42nd in option (C) was the wide amendment of 1976. The 44th in option (D) reversed some of its changes after the Emergency.

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44.

In which of the following amendment the words 'Nothing in Article 13 shall apply to any amendment made under Article 368' were inserted ?

A.22nd Amendment
B.24th Amendment
C.42nd Amendment
D.44th Amendment

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: B

The words 'Nothing in Article 13 shall apply to any amendment made under Article 368' were inserted by the 24th Amendment, 1971, which is option B. It was passed to restore Parliament's power to amend Part III after the Golaknath decision.

The 22nd Amendment dealt with Meghalaya as an associate state, the 42nd Amendment of 1976 made many changes including the Preamble, and the 44th Amendment of 1978 undid several of those. None of them inserted this clause.

The amendment was passed in 1971 and was in turn considered in Kesavananda Bharati.

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45.

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below :

List - I	List - II
I. Deletion of fundamental right to freedom to acquire, hold and dispose of property.	(a) Constitution (Forty-Second Amendment) Act.
II. Insertion of the word 'integrity' to the Preamble of the Constitution.	(b) Constitution (Forty-Fourth Amendment) Act.
III. Inclusion of right to education as fundamental right under Article 21A	(c) Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act.
IV. Insertion of Clause(5) in Article 15.	(d) Constitution (Ninety-Third Amendment) Act.

Codes : I II III IV

A.(b) (a) (c) (d)
B.(a) (b) (c) (d)
C.(b) (a) (d) (c)
D.(c) (b) (a) (d)

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

The correct match is I-(b), II-(a), III-(c), IV-(d).

The right to acquire, hold and dispose of property was removed from the fundamental rights by the Forty-Fourth Amendment (b).
The word 'integrity' was inserted into the Preamble by the Forty-Second Amendment (a).
Article 21A, the right to education, was inserted by the Eighty-sixth Amendment (c).
Clause (5) of Article 15, on admission to educational institutions, was inserted by the Ninety-Third Amendment (d).

The other codes swap the first two or the last two, and so attach an Amendment to a change it did not make.

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46.

In which of the following cases free and fair election is recognized as basic structure of Indian Constitution ?

A.Indira Gandhi V. Raj Narayan
B.Minerva Mills V. Union of India
C.Both (A) and (B) above
D.None of the above

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

Both Indira Gandhi v. Raj Narayan and Minerva Mills v. Union of India are cases in which free and fair elections were treated as part of the basic structure. In Indira Gandhi v. Raj Narayan (1975) the Court struck down the clause of the 39th Amendment that exempted the Prime Minister's election from judicial scrutiny, holding free and fair elections to be basic. Minerva Mills (1980) further restated the basic structure doctrine, so the key accepts option A, the first case, as the one that recognised it.

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47.

Assertion (A) : Under Article 368, the Parliament can amend any provision of the Constitution except the basic structure of the Constitution.

Reason (R) : The Supreme Court has restricted the absolute power of Parliament to amend any provision of the Constitution.
Codes :

A.Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
B.Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
C.(A) is true, but (R) is false.
D.(A) is false, but (R) is true.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

Both statements are true and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion. Article 368 gives Parliament power to amend the Constitution, but in Kesavananda Bharati (1973) the Supreme Court held that this power does not extend to altering the basic structure. It is because the Court has restricted Parliament's otherwise wide power of amendment that the Assertion holds, so the Reason explains it. Hence option A is correct.

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48.

Assertion (A) : Under Article-368,the parliament can amend any part of the constitution of India.

Reason (R) : The parliament is supreme legislative body elected by people of India.
Codes :

A.Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
B.Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
C.(A) is true, but (R) is false.
D.(A) is false, but (R) is true.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: D

Assertion (A) is false and reason (R) is true. Under Article 368 Parliament may amend the Constitution, but after Kesavananda Bharati (1973) it cannot alter or destroy the basic structure, so it cannot amend any part in any way it likes.

The reason states that Parliament is the supreme legislative body elected by the people, which is true as a description, but the Constitution and not Parliament is supreme in India. Hence the combination of a false assertion and a true reason is the keyed answer.

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49.

Consider the following facts and arrange them in correct chronological order starting from the earliest to the last activity :

I. Fundamental Duties were added in the Constitution of India.
II. Declaration of Emergency due to Chinese invasion.
III. Right to Information Act.
IV. 73rd Amendment Act for Panchayati Raj.

Select the correct answer from the code given below :

A.IV, III, II, I
B.II, I, IV, III
C.I, II, III, IV
D.III, IV, I, II

Exam Year(s)

UKPSC Lower PCS - 2025,

Answer: B

The correct order is II, I, IV, III.

II. The Emergency was proclaimed in October 1962, during the Chinese invasion.
I. Fundamental Duties were added as Article 51A by the 42nd Amendment of 1976.
IV. The 73rd Amendment Act, giving constitutional status to Panchayati Raj, was passed in 1992 and came into force in 1993.
III. The Right to Information Act was passed in 2005.

Any order that does not begin with the 1962 Emergency, or that puts the RTI Act before 1992, is wrong.

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50.

Match List - I with the List - II referring to Amendments in the Constitution and the provisions added :

List - I	List - II
(A) 1st Amendment	(1) Sindhi Language added
(B) 21st Amendment	(2) Voting age reduced from 21 to 18
(C) 52nd Amendment	(3) Ninth Schedule inserted
(D) 61st Amendment	(4) Tenth Schedule inserted

Select the correct answer from the options given below :

A.(A)-(1), (B)-(3), (C)-(2), (D)-(4)
B.(A)-(1), (B)-(3), (C)-(4), (D)-(2)
C.(A)-(3), (B)-(1), (C)-(2), (D)-(4)
D.(A)-(3), (B)-(1), (C)-(4), (D)-(2)

Exam Year(s)

UKPSC Lower PCS - 2025,

Answer: D

The correct matching is (A)-(3), (B)-(1), (C)-(4), (D)-(2).

1st Amendment (1951) inserted the Ninth Schedule, to protect land reform laws from challenge.
21st Amendment (1967) added Sindhi to the Eighth Schedule.
52nd Amendment (1985) inserted the Tenth Schedule, the anti-defection law.
61st Amendment (1988) reduced the voting age from 21 to 18.

The options pairing the 1st Amendment with Sindhi, or the 52nd with the voting age, mix up these four.

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