Indian Constitution Quiz 3

The residuary powers of legislation are vested in Parliament. Article 248(2) of the Constitution of India says that the Parliament has exclusive power to make any law with respect to any matter not enumerated in the Union, State or Concurrent lists of the Constitution.

Article 76 of the constitution mentions that the Attorney General of India is the highest law officer of India. He/She has the right of audience in all Courts in India as well as the right to participate in the proceedings of the Parliament, though not to vote.

Upon independence in 1947, Prasad was elected as President of the Constituent Assembly of India, which prepared the Constitution of India and served as its provisional parliament. When India became a republic in 1950, Prasad was elected its first president by the Constituent Assembly.

The 3-tier of the Panchayati Raj System consists of Gram Panchayat (village level), Mandal Parishad or Block Samiti or Panchayat Samiti (block level), and Zila Parishad (district level). It was formalized in 1992 by the 73rd amendment to the Indian Constitution.

Fundamental duties are defined under Article 51A of the Constitution of India 1949. This article was not included in the Draft Constitution 1948. It was inserted by the Constitution (42nd Amendment) Act 1976.

In 2017, a 9 Judge Bench of the Supreme Court delivered a unanimous verdict in Justice KS Puttaswamy vs Union of India and other connected matters, affirming that the Constitution of India guarantees to each individual a fundamental right to privacy under Articles 14, 19 and 21.

Under Article 356 of the Constitution of India, if a State fails to comply with the Directives of the Central Government, the President can declare the breakdown of constitutional machinery in the State and assume responsibility for the governance of the State.

Statutory grants-in-aid of the revenues of States are dealt with in Article 275 of the Constitution of India. It is done on the basis of the recommendation of the Finance Commission of India. Resources transferred from the Government of India to States are termed 'Statutory' if they are made on the recommendations of the Finance Commission.

The procedure of amendment in the constitution is laid down in Article 368 of the Constitution of India. The major part of the Constitution can be amended by the Parliament alone either by a special majority or by a simple majority. Only in a few cases, the consent of the state legislatures is required and that too, only half of them.

The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India consists of 22 languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri. Of these languages, 14 were initially included in the Constitution. Sindhi language was added in 1967. Thereafter three more languages viz., Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali were included in 1992. Subsequently Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali were added in 2004.