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Panchayati Raj and Community Development (Part-I)

📆 October 23, 2024

Total Questions: 60

1. Who speaks of India's self-reliant social system 'The rural system in India is a tiny Republic'? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2020]

Correct Answer: (a) Charles Metcalfe
Solution:In 1830, Sir Charles Metcalfe, then acting governor general of India wrote: "The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves and almost independent of any foreign relations."

2. Who was the Father of local Self-Government in India? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2023]

Correct Answer: (d) Lord Ripon
Solution:Lord Ripon was appointed as Viceroy of India in 1880. Lord Ripon is regarded to have been the Father of local self government in India. He formulated the local self government and laid the foundations of representative institutions in India. His scheme of local self-government developed the municipal institutions which have been growing up in the country ever since.

3. Which Article of the Indian Constitution directs state Government to organize village Panchayats? [39th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 1994]

Correct Answer: (b) Article 40
Solution:Article 40 of the Constitution directs the States to constitute Gram Panchayats. It is included in the Directive Principles of State Policy. Article 40 provides that the State shall take steps to organize village Panchayats and endow them with such powers and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as units of self-governance.

4. Article 40 of the Constitution of India advises the State to work for— [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2015]

Correct Answer: (b) Organization of Village Panchayats
Solution:Article 40 of the Constitution directs the States to constitute Gram Panchayats. It is included in the Directive Principles of State Policy. Article 40 provides that the State shall take steps to organize village Panchayats and endow them with such powers and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as units of self-governance.

5. Panchayati Raj is organized as a unit of Self-Government under— [43rd B.P.S.C. (Pre) 1999]

Correct Answer: (d) 73rd Amendment of the Indian Constitution
Solution:The local self-government in India has been formulated under the Panchayati Raj System. 73rd Amendment of the Constitution 1992 gave it Constitutional status.

6. When was the third tier added to Indian Federal System? [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2020]

Correct Answer: (d) 1993
Solution:The local self-government in India has been formulated under the Panchayati Raj System. 73rd Amendment of the Constitution 1992 gave it Constitutional status.

7. The provision regarding Panchayats and Municipalities was made in the Indian Constitution in— [U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2010]

Correct Answer: (d) 1993
Solution:The local self-government in India has been formulated under the Panchayati Raj System. 73rd Amendment of the Constitution 1992 gave it Constitutional status.

8. What is/are true among the following? [Chhattisgarh P.C.S. (Pre) 2022]

(i) By 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments, Three-tier Governance System was introduced in the Constitution.

(ii) This system was copied from the Constitution of Australia.

(iii) 74th Constitutional Amendment Act is related to giving Constitutional recognition to Panchayats.

Correct Answer: (a) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Solution:The local self-government in India has been formulated under the Panchayati Raj System. 73rd Amendment of the Constitution 1992 gave it Constitutional status.

9. The legislative origins of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act can be traced back to which Constitutional Amendment Bill? [66th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2020]

Correct Answer: (d) 64th Constitutional Amendment Bill
Solution:The 64th Amendment Bill was prepared in 1989 and introduced in Lok Sabha in July 1989, to confer constitutional status to Panchayati Raj Institutions. This was the first attempt by any government to do so after independence.

10. Which Constitutional Amendment granted Constitutional Status to Panchayati Raj Institutions? [M.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 1998, 44th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2000]

Correct Answer: (a) 73rd Amendment
Solution:Panchayat Raj System was given a Constitutional Status by 73rd Amendment by inserting Part IX and 11th Schedule to the Constitution. Seventy-third Amendment, 1992 came into force on 24 April, 1993.
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