Indian Constitution Quiz 4

A federal government is one in which powers are divided between the national government and the regional governments by the Constitution itself and both operate in their respective jurisdictions independently. India, US, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Russia, Brazil, Argentina have the federal form of government.

Four prime ministers, VP Singh, I.K. Gujral, H.D. Deve Gowda and Atal Bihari Vajpayee have been voted out from the office. Morarji Desai was the first prime minister to resign while in office. In November 1990, VP Singh lost the no-confidence motion and had to resign.

Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and is not subject to dissolution. However, one third of the members retire every second year, and are replaced by newly elected members. Each member is elected for a term of six years.

To become a judge of the Supreme court, an individual should be an Indian citizen. The norms relating to eligibility have been envisaged in Article 124 of the Indian Constitution. In terms of age, a person should not exceed 65 years of age.

Article 58 of the Indian constitution deals with Qualifications for election as President. For the election of President of India, a citizen should not be less than 35 years of age, and qualified for election as a member of the Lok Sabha. His term of office is five years, and he is eligible for re-election.

The expenditure to be incurred by the Government and the revenue to be collected by way of taxes must be approved by the Parliament.

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.

Finance Commission is a constitutional body for the purpose of allocation of certain revenue resources between the Union and the State Governments. It was established under Article 280 of the Indian Constitution by the Indian President. It was created to define the financial relations between the Centre and the states.

Economic and social planning is included in the Concurrent List under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.

The President of India has the power to summon and prorogue either of the two Houses of Parliament or to dissolve the Lok Sabha.