Indian Administration Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The chronological order of appointment is Hanumantha Rao Committee, Sarkaria Commission, L.M. Singhvi Committee and Thungan Committee.

Taking the items as (iii), (ii), (i), (iv) gives this order, which is the option the key marks. The Hanumantha Rao Committee and the Sarkaria Commission came earlier, followed by the Singhvi Committee and then the Thungan Committee.

The other options start with the Singhvi Committee or with the Sarkaria Commission in a different place, which breaks the order.

Answer: C

Administrative tribunals cannot be established for delimitation of constituencies.

The Constitution bars courts from questioning delimitation of constituencies, so it is outside what a tribunal may decide. Industrial and labour disputes and the ceiling on urban property are listed among the matters for which tribunals may be created under Article 323B.

Election disputes for either House of Parliament are also listed for tribunals in that Article, subject to the provisions that keep certain election matters for the courts, which is why the key treats delimitation as the one that cannot be handed over.

Answer: B

The National Labour Relations Commission is not an independent regulatory commission in India. That body belongs to another country's system (the Philippines has such a commission, and the United States has a National Labor Relations Board).

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (now replaced by the Competition Commission) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India are regulatory bodies set up under Indian law.

Answer: C

The assertion is true and the reason, as worded, is false. In a parliamentary government the executive is responsible to the legislature, which is its defining feature.

The Constitution of India, Article 75(3), makes the Council of Ministers collectively responsible to the House of the People (the Lok Sabha), and not to the Parliament as a whole, since the Rajya Sabha cannot remove it. So the reason is not accurate, and the options that call it correct are wrong.

Answer: B

The President appoints the judges of the Supreme Court, the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Governors of states by warrant under his hand and seal (i, ii and iv). The warrant is mentioned in Articles 124, 148 and 155.

The Attorney-General is also appointed by the President under Article 76, but the Constitution does not require a warrant under hand and seal for that post. So the codes that include (iii) are wrong.

Answer: D

The Montague-Chelmsford Report on constitutional reforms was of 1918 (ii). The State Reorganization Commission reported in 1955 (i), the Taxation Enquiry Commission in 1954 (iii), and the Statutory (Simon) Commission was appointed in 1927 (iv). This gives ii, i, iii, iv.

The Simon Commission was set up in 1927 and reported in 1930, and the Montague-Chelmsford reforms led to the Act of 1919, so the order of the dates fixes the pairs.

Answer: D

The key attributes the statement that, of all policy making organs in the Government of India, the secretariat stands on an exceptionally high pedestal, to S.R. Maheshwari, an author on Indian administration.

The other names offered are not credited with the remark in the key. The statement itself points to the secretariat's central place: it advises ministers, helps formulate policy and oversees implementation, so it stands above other policy-making organs.

Answer: C

Parliament's power to legislate to implement an international treaty or agreement comes from Article 253 (iii). Power over State list matters during an Emergency comes from Article 250 (i). The power to impose a tax not mentioned in the concurrent or state list is under Article 248 (iv), the residuary power. Matters in the Union List come under Article 246 (ii). This gives iii, i, iv, ii.

Article 246 sets out the lists, so d-ii is certain.

Answer: D

All four reasons explain the growing importance of personnel administration: recognition of the human aspect of organizations, long-range manpower needs, the large size of modern organizations, and high wage bills that call for optimum use of manpower (i, ii, iii and iv).

Each shorter code leaves out a genuine cause. The large payroll makes efficiency in the use of staff a financial issue, and a large organization cannot be run without a planned personnel function.

Answer: C

The key pairs Article 316(1) with the qualification of members of the Union Public Service Commission (i), Article 316(2) with the resignation of members (iv), Article 317(3) with the ground for removal of members (ii) and Article 319 with further employment under the Government of India (iii). This gives i, iv, ii, iii.

Article 319 is the prohibition on holding office after a member ceases to be one, which is the well-known pair and rules out the options giving d other content.