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Assertion (A) and Reason (R) pattern : Answer the following by using the codes given below.

1.

Assertion (A) : Parliament control over delegated legislation is weak.
Reason (R) : Legislatures are innocent of legal skill.

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Parliament delegates the making of detailed rules to the executive and is supposed to control it, through laying of rules on the table and committees on subordinate legislation. In practice the control is weak: the volume of rules is huge, most are never debated, and they are technical in form.

The reason given, that legislators lack legal skill (printed 'innocent of legal skill'), is one of the standard explanations of this weakness. Members are mostly not lawyers or experts and cannot readily judge whether a rule goes beyond the parent Act, so scrutiny is left to a few committee members. The reason therefore explains the assertion.

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2.

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

List I (Bodies)List II (Related Activities)
(a) Central Secretariat(1) Principles Governing Grants-in-aid to states
(b) Cabinet Secretariat(2) Formulation of policies
(c) Planning Commission(3) Co-ordination of activities of various ministries
(d) Finance Commission(4) Allocation of resources

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: C

The correct match is a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1.

  • The Central Secretariat, the ministries and departments of the Government of India, assists ministers in the formulation of policies.
  • The Cabinet Secretariat coordinates the activities of the various ministries and serves the Cabinet and its committees.
  • The Planning Commission allocated resources among sectors and states through the Five Year Plans.
  • The Finance Commission (Article 280) recommends the principles governing grants-in-aid to the states out of the Consolidated Fund of India.

Option A gives grants-in-aid to the Cabinet Secretariat, and options B and D give policy formulation to the Planning Commission, so only option C fits all four.

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3.

The present cabinet secretariat has been established on ...........

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: C

The present Cabinet Secretariat dates from 5th September 1946.

Before that, the Governor-General's Executive Council had a secretariat headed by the Secretary to the Executive Council. On 5 September 1946, when the Interim Government was formed, the Secretariat of the Executive Council was designated the Cabinet Secretariat and its Secretary became the Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretariat's own history page records this date. The change was mainly one of name; the body grew into the coordinating agency for the ministries after Independence.

The other dates mark different events. 15 August 1947 is the day of Independence, 26 January 1950 is the day the Constitution came into force, and 17 September 1946 is not the date on which the Secretariat was renamed. The Interim Government itself began to function on 2 September 1946, which is why 5 September 1946 can be confused with the dates around it.

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4.

As per sixth pay commission, which of the following is not included in the categorisation of employees ?

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

Personnel belonging to local Government are not included.

The Sixth Central Pay Commission (2006-2008, chaired by Justice B.N. Srikrishna) examined the pay of employees for whom the Union is responsible. Its terms of reference covered Central Government employees, industrial and non-industrial; personnel belonging to the All India Services; and personnel of the Union Territories, along with some other central categories.

Employees of municipalities, panchayats and other local bodies are paid by the states and the local bodies themselves under their own pay arrangements, so they fall outside a Central Pay Commission's categorisation. The other three groups are all within it.

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5.

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration brings out a quarterly journal known as :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

The academy's quarterly journal is The Administrator.

The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussoorie, which trains IAS officers and gives the foundation course to the higher civil services, publishes The Administrator.

The Indian Journal of Public Administration (printed 'Adminsitration') is the journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. Public Administration Review is published for the American Society for Public Administration, and Administration and Society is an American academic journal. None of them is the academy's own.

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6.

The merit principle of recruitment was first recommended by :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

The merit principle was first recommended by the Northcote-Trevelyan committee.

The Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1854, written for the British government by Sir Stafford Northcote and Sir Charles Trevelyan, proposed that entry to the civil service be by open competitive examination rather than patronage, with promotion on merit. In the same year Macaulay's committee applied the same idea to the Indian Civil Service.

The Aitchison Commission (1886-87) dealt with the role of Indians in the public services, the Lee Commission (1924) with the superior services in India and gave rise to the Public Service Commission of 1926, and the Tomlin Commission (1929-31) with the British civil service. All came well after merit had been recommended.

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7.

Assertion (A) and Reason (R) pattern :

Assertion (A) : Importance of the Cabinet Secretariat is due to expansion in the scope of government.
Reason (R) : Advancement of technology has resulted in creation of government agencies.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(A) is true. As the functions of government expanded, more ministries came to deal with matters that cut across one another, and the Cabinet Secretariat grew in importance as the body that services the Cabinet and its committees and co-ordinates the ministries.

(R) is also true, since new technologies have led governments to set up new agencies to manage them. But the Cabinet Secretariat's importance comes from the need to co-ordinate an expanded government, not from technology as such, so (R) does not explain (A). That rules out option A, and options C and D are wrong because both statements are true.

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8.

Who has recommended that "The Cabinet Secretary should be an administrative officer of the highest rank" ?

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The recommendation is credited to N. Gopalswami (N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar).

Gopalaswami Ayyangar's 1949 report on the reorganisation of the machinery of the central government reviewed the working of the Cabinet Secretariat and the central secretariat after independence. The Cabinet Secretary heads the civil service in India and is the senior-most officer of the Government of India, in line with that view.

The other names belong to American administrative thought. Chester Barnard wrote on the functions of the executive, Luther Gulick on POSDCORB and the US President's staff, and Woodrow Wilson on the study of administration. None of them made recommendations on the Indian Cabinet Secretary.

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9.

The rules for transaction of business of Government of India are made by ..........

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

The rules are made by the President.

Article 77(3) of the Constitution provides that the President shall make rules for the more convenient transaction of the business of the Government of India and for the allocation of that business among Ministers. The Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules and the (Transaction of Business) Rules, 1961, are issued under it.

The Prime Minister advises the President on these rules but does not make them. Parliament legislates but has no role in framing them, and the Secretariat works under them, through its manual of office procedure, rather than making them.

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10.

‘Academy Board’ of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy is headed by :

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: B

The Academy Board of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad, is headed by the Home Secretary (the Union Home Secretary).

The Ministry of Home Affairs set up the Board by an office order of 20 May 1976, after an Estimates Committee visit to the Academy. The Union Home Secretary chairs it, and its members are senior civil servants, police officers, educationists and experts in police administration. It visits the Academy at least once a year, reviews its working and makes recommendations to the Ministry.

The Home Minister is the political head of the Ministry but does not chair this board. The Minister and the Secretary of Human Resource Development belong to a different ministry, which has no part in a police training academy under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

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