Polity (Part-3) (CDS-Solved Paper)

Acquisition of copyright is automatic and it does not require any formality. Copyright comes into existence as soon as a work is created and no formality is required to be completed for acquiring copyright.

However, certificate of registration of copyright and the entries made therein serve as prima facie evidence in a court of law with reference to dispute relating to ownership of copyright.

Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) clause mentions that under the WTO agreements other people should be treated equally.

Countries cannot normally discriminate between their trading partners, grant someone a special favour (such as a lower customs duty rate for one of their products) and you have to do the same for all other WTO members.
Hence, option (a) is correct.

India uses the midshipman rank in its navy, and all future officers carry the rank upon entering the Indian Naval Academy. The rank of captain of the Indian Navy is equivalent to group captain in the Indian Airforce.

Maintenance Command is a command of the Indian Air Force. It was raised as Maintenance Group at Chakeri in Kanpur in 1950. In 1955, it was designated as Maintenance Command. Hence, only option (c) is correct.

The Poona Pact was an agreement between Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi which was signed on 24th September, 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune, India, which asserted that there will be a single Hindu electorate, with scheduled 151 castes having 151 seats reserved within it, so the representation of these classes was based on the standards of joint electorates and reserved seats.

The Communal Award was made by the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16th August, 1932 which allowed separate electorates in India, and it was supported by Ambedkar.
Hence, statement I is true, but statement II is false.

Dr. BR Ambedkar never resigned from All India Depressed class association. So, option (c) is incorrect. In the 1930s, Dr. Ambedkar was now in the midst of his career; this was the central and perhaps most controversy-filled decade of his whole complex life.

Dr. B.R Ambedkar founded depressed classes association in 1930. He also became the First President of All India Depressed Classes Congress in the same year.

The Justice Party was a political party in the Madras Presidency of British India. It was founded by T. M. Nair and P.

Theagaraya Chetty in 1916. Communal division between Brahmins and non Brahmins began in the presidency during the late-19th and early 20th century, mainly due to caste prejudices and disproportionate Brahminical representation in government jobs.

The Justice Party’s foundation marked the culmination of several efforts to establish an organisation to represent the non-Brahmins in Madras.

Founders of Justice Party thought that Congress was mainly Brahmin party, so, it started opposing Congress.
Hence, option (d) is incorrect.

The Indian Constitution guarantees Cultural and Educational Rights under Articles 29 and 30. Under Article 29, this article seeks to protect the interests of the minority communities.

This article confers the freedom to all citizens, residing in different parts of the land, to conserve their distinct languages, scripts or cultures state shall not impose upon it any culture other than the community’s own culture.

This article further assures that no citizen shall be denied admission into any state run or state-aided educational institution on grounds only of religion, race, caste, language or any of them.

And under Article 30, It provides that all minority communities—religion or linguistic, have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice. In granting aid to educational institutions, the state shall not discriminate on the grounds of religion or language.
Hence, option (c) is incorrect.

The Directive Principles of State Policy are enumerated in Part IV of the Constitution from Articles 36 to 51.

The Directive Principles are non-justiciable in nature, that is, they are not legally enforceable by the courts for their violation. DPSP doesn’t seek to advance India as a capitalist country. Hence, statement (d) is incorrect.

The Vice-President is elected by an electoral college consisting of both elected and nominated members of both Houses of Parliament.

Hence, option (a) is not correct. The Vice-President in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote and the voting in such election is by secret ballot.

The Vice-President is not a member of either House of Parliament or of a House of a Legislature of any state. The Vice-President of India is also Ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha or Council of States.