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प्रश्न
A Panchayat Samiti at the block level in India is only a/an:
पर्याय
Administrative authority
Co-ordinating and Supervisory authority
Consultative Committee
Advisory body
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उत्तर
Co-ordinating and Supervisory authority
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Direction: The passage given below is followed by a set of question. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
Under our Constitution, the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary all have their own broad spheres of operation. Ordinarily it is not proper for any of these three organs of the State to encroach upon the domain of another, otherwise the delicate balance in the Constitution will be upset, and there will be a reaction. Judges must know their limits and must not try to run the Government. They must have modesty and humility, and not behave like Emperors. There is broad separation of powers under the Constitution and each organ of the State the legislature, the executive and the judiciary must have respect for the others and must not encroach into each other’s domains.
The theory of separation of powers first propounded by the French thinker Montesquieu (in his book ‘The Spirit of Laws' broadly holds the field in India too. In chapter XI of his book ‘The Spirit of Laws’ Montesquieu writes:
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the judicial power is not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; for the judge would be then the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression.
In India, the judiciary occupies an important place. The constitution visualizes an independent judiciary to safeguard the rights of citizens. In a democratic polity, the independent judiciary is a sine qua non to the effective functioning of the system. Administration has to function according to the law and the Constitution. The judiciary has an important role to play in protecting the citizen against the arbitrary exercise of power by administration. In the context of ever-expanding activities of government and discretionary powers vested in the various administrative agencies and public officials, the need to protect and safeguard the citizen's rights assumes significance and priority. In developing societies where the state is playing an important role in development, judiciary has a special responsibility to ensure social justice to the underprivileged sections of the community. However, it must be admitted that the courts cannot interfere in the administrative activities on their own accord even if such activities are arbitrary. They act only when their intervention is sought. Judicial intervention is restrictive in nature and limited in its scope.
Suppose the Judiciary has intervened in the questions involving, allotment of a particular bungalow to a Judge, specific bungalows for the Judges pool, monkeys capering in colonies, stray cattle on the streets, will it be safe to say that the Judiciary is disturbing the delicate balance of the Constitution?
Fill in the blanks: Choose the pair of words that complete the sentence to make logical sense.
A bench headed by _________ quashed allocation of 2014 ______ as _____.
Mark the best option:
Principles:
- The Constitution of India has divided the power to make laws between the Central and State Legislatures by mentioning the subjects for legislation under the Union (under Central Government), State (under State Government) and Concurrent List(under both Central and State Governments) under the Seventh Schedule.
- When the Central or State Legislatures exceed the subjects in their respective lists, the law so made is considered ultra vires the Constitution and has no effect.
- A subsequent retrospective amendment of the Constitution widening the scope of legislation of the said legislature cannot validate such ultra vires legislation.
- A fresh law enacted by the said Legislature post such an amendment of the Constitution is considered valid.
- A Legislature in exercise of its valid legislative power may extend to its territory a law made by another Legislature.
Facts: In light of the growing economic development in the state of Gujarat, the state legislature passed a law on 26th December 2012 setting up Gujarat State Railways Corporation to ply goods trains between commercial areas within Gujarat. The law faced criticism since railways formed an entry under the Union List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution. The Gujarat legislature stood by the legislation owing to the 118th Constitutional Amendment of 28th December 2012 shifting only commercial railways to the Concurrent List.
Post the Constitutional Amendment, laws in relation to passenger railways can be made by:
Which of the following Article states that India as a Union of States rather than a Federation of States?
Which of the following state was formed by taking the Naga Hills and Tuensang area out of the state of Asom?
Whose decision is final in the proceeding of the Lok Sabha?
In the question given below are two statements labelled as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). In the context of the two statements, which of the following is correct?
Assertion (A): Speaker is appointed by President of India.
Reason (R): Constitution mention the procedure of the election of the speaker.
The Central Government can issue directions to the states with regard to the
- Union List
- State List
- Concurrent List
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
The following questions consist of two statements, one labeled as ‘Assertion’ (A) and other as ‘Reason’ (R). You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the correct answers.
Assertion (A): The state shall not make any law, which takes away or abridges the rights conferred by Part III (Fundamental Rights) and any law made in contravention of this clause shall, to the extent of the contravention, be void.
Reason (R): The fundamental rights are the rights reserved by the people and for this reason, they are eternal and sacrosanct.
Who is the present Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India?
