Indian Administration Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The pair that is not correctly matched is Rajiv Gandhi with A.N. Verma. A.N. Verma was Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister under P.V. Narasimha Rao, and not under Rajiv Gandhi.

The other pairs are correct: L.K. Jha was Secretary to Lal Bahadur Shastri, P.N. Haksar held the post under Indira Gandhi, and Bhuvnesh Chaturvedi was in the Prime Minister's Office under Narasimha Rao.

Answer: B

The correct matching is the Economic Administration Reforms Commission with L.K. Jha (iii), the Commission on Centre-State Relations with R.S. Sarkaria (iv), the Committee on Prevention of Corruption with K. Santhanam (ii) and the Railway Corruption Enquiry Committee with J.B. Kripalani (i). The code is iii, iv, ii, i.

The other codes give at least one body to the wrong chairperson, for example the Sarkaria Commission to Santhanam.

Answer: D

Efficient Conduct of State Enterprises is not a report of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission. That title is a different publication, and it is not in the commission's list of reports.

The titles Unlocking Human Capital: Entitlements and Governance, Social Capital: A Shared Destiny and Capacity Building for Conflict Resolution are reports of the Second ARC, so they are the distractors.

Answer: B

Statements (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct, so the code is the second one. A new All India Service can be created by a law of Parliament if it is necessary or expedient in the national interest, and the Constitution lets Parliament create an All-India Judicial Service by law.

Statement (i) is wrong because the Council of States must pass a resolution supported by not less than two thirds of the members present and voting, and not a simple majority. So the codes containing (i) are rejected.

Answer: B

Before independence the appointments to the All India Services were made by the Secretary of State for India. The Indian Civil Service was recruited and controlled from London under the Government of India Act.

The Governor-General-in-Council and the East India Company had earlier or lesser roles, and the Cabinet Secretariat is an Indian body. So the other options are rejected. Recruitment to the Indian Civil Service was by open competition held in London, and the appointments were made by the Secretary of State, who sat in the British Cabinet and answered to Parliament.

Answer: B

The correct matching is Haldane with the Report of the Machinery of Government Committee (iv), Plowden with the Report on Control of Expenditure (i), Mesterman (Masterman) with the report on the political activities of civil servants (iii) and Hoover with the organisation of the executive branch of the government (ii). The code is iv, i, iii, ii.

The other codes mismatch at least two of the pairs, such as giving the Hoover Commission to the report on control of expenditure.

Answer: D

The name not associated with the PMO is N.R. Pillai.

Brijesh Mishra, Bhuvnesh Chaturvedi and Prithviraj Chauhan are the three names the key treats as linked with the Prime Minister's Office, so none of them can be the answer to a question asking which has not been associated with it.

N.R. Pillai is the one name the key marks as outside the PMO, which makes it the answer.

Answer: C

The recommendation on a Legislative Council elected by local governments is credited by the key to the 2nd Administrative Reforms Commission.

The 2nd ARC dealt with local governance and with the composition of state legislatures, and the wording of the question, a Legislative Council in each state with members elected by local governments, is the one the key attributes to it.

The Srikrishna Commission, the Venkatachaliah Commission (which reviewed the working of the Constitution) and the Punchhi Commission on Centre-State relations are the other bodies named, but the key does not credit this recommendation to any of them, so those options are not marked.

Answer: A

Both statements are correct and the reason explains the assertion, so the answer is option A.

The judiciary has widened its social role and given the rule of locus standi a liberal interpretation. This happened because, in a socially awakened atmosphere, social action groups are encouraged to approach the courts with public interest litigation to remedy injustice, which is the reason given.

Option B would hold only if the reason did not explain the assertion, and options C and D call one of the statements false, which they are not.

Answer: C

The post of Deputy Collector was created under the Charter Act of 1833.

That Act opened the way for Indians to hold subordinate offices in the revenue and judicial service, and the non-covenanted post of Deputy Collector was brought in under it.

The Regulating Act of 1773 and Pitt's India Act of 1784 dealt with the control of the Company's governance, and the Charter Act of 1843 is not the Act that created this post. Those options are therefore wrong.