union government mcqs set 12 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Answer: (d)

All appointments to All India Services are made by the President of India.

The All India Services comprises Civil Services of India, namely

1. The Indian Administrative Service (IAS),
2. The Indian Police Service (IPS) and
3. The Indian Forest Service (IFS).

The members of these services are recruited by the Union government, but their services are placed under various State cadres, and they have the liability to serve both under the State and under the Centre.

Answer: (a)

Disqualification in matters relating to defection is decided by the Speaker or the Chairman of the House depending upon whether it is Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha. In matters relating to corrupt practices, it is the President who, in consultation with the Election Commission, passes the final orders even if the dispute is adjudicated by the Courts.

Answer: (d)

The Constitution empowers the Parliament of India to make laws on the matters reserved for States (States List). However, this can only be done if Rajya Sabha first passes a resolution by two-thirds supermajority granting such a power to the Union Parliament.

The union government cannot make a law on a matter reserved for states without authorisation from Rajya Sabha.

So the House of People does not have special powers with respect to the state list.

Answer: (d)

The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court may be categorised as original, appellate and advisory. Under the Original Jurisdiction, the Supreme Court can settle disputes

1. between the Centre and one or more States;
2. between the Centre and any State or States on the one side and one or more other States on the other; or
3. between two or more States.

Answer: (d)

The resolution adopted by the House in matters concerning its own proceedings are binding and have the force of law.

Notice of resolution 170:

• A member other than a minister who wishes to move a resolution on a day allotted for private members’ resolutions, shall give a notice to that effect at least two days before the date of the ballot.
• The names of all members from whom such notices are received shall be balloted and those members who secure the first three places in the ballot for the day allotted for private members’ resolutions shall be eligible to give notice of one resolution each within two days after the date of the ballot.

Form of resolution 171:

1. A resolution may be in the form of a declaration of opinion or a recommendation; or
2. maybe in the form so as to record either approval or disapproval by the House of an act or policy of the government, or convey a message; or
3. commend, urge or request an action; or
4. call attention to a matter or situation for consideration by the government, or
5. in such other form as the Speaker may consider appropriate.