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UPSC CDS Indian Polity — practice questions — page 6

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Pop the Panchayat tiersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the local numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the local bodiesRead the answer and worked solution →Rural or urbanRead the answer and worked solution →Which tierRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Local government bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A student notes the Soviet Union rewrote its constitution four times in 74 years. On what date was India's adopted?Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution of the United States is over 200 years old. How many times has it been amended?Read the answer and worked solution →Which article lays down the procedure for amending most of the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →An amendment bill passed by both Houses reaches the President. Can the President return it?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the first condition of the special majority needed for a constitutional amendment?Read the answer and worked solution →The Lok Sabha has 545 members. What is the minimum support an amendment needs there?Read the answer and worked solution →The two Houses disagree on an amendment bill. Can a joint session settle it?Read the answer and worked solution →For amendments needing State consent, what majority must a State legislature give?Read the answer and worked solution →By 12 January 2019, how many times had the Constitution been amended in 69 years?Read the answer and worked solution →Ten amendments were passed in just three years during the Congress dominance era. Which years?Read the answer and worked solution →The 15th Amendment raised the retirement age of High Court judges from 60 to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?Read the answer and worked solution →In which country can the people themselves initiate a constitutional amendment?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three amendments, passed during the 1975 Emergency, are considered the most controversial?Read the answer and worked solution →The 42nd Amendment extended the Lok Sabha term from five years to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Fundamental Duties were added to the Constitution by which amendment?Read the answer and worked solution →Which amendments cancelled most of the changes made by the 38th, 39th and 42nd?Read the answer and worked solution →Who is the final authority on whether an amendment violates the basic structure?Read the answer and worked solution →Is the basic structure doctrine written in the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →In 2000 a commission reviewed the working of the Constitution. Who chaired it?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the amendment rulesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Emergency amendmentsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the amendmentsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the Panchayat tiers

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Other terms
  1. Nagarpalika
  2. Corporation
  3. Lok Sabha
Matching terms
  1. Gram Panchayat
  2. Mandal Panchayat
  3. Zilla Panchayat
  4. Gram Sabha
Instructions
Pop the bodies that belong to rural Panchayati Raj.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 8, Local Governments._

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Run the local numbers

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Questions
  1. Correct
    1993
    Choices
    1. 1993
    2. 1983
    3. 2003
  2. Correct
    1/3
    Choices
    1. 1/4
    2. 1/3
    3. 1/2
  3. Correct
    29
    Choices
    1. 19
    2. 24
    3. 29
  4. Correct
    6 months
    Choices
    1. 6 months
    2. 1 year
    3. 2 years
  5. Correct
    5 years
    Choices
    1. 3 years
    2. 5 years
    3. 7 years
  6. Correct
    5,000
    Choices
    1. 1,000
    2. 2,500
    3. 5,000
  7. Correct
    1882
    Choices
    1. 1882
    2. 1919
    3. 1935
Instructions
Pick the lane with the right number for each fact.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 8, Local Governments._

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Slice the local bodies

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Does not match the category
  1. Senate
  2. Cabinet
  3. Tribunal
  4. Congress
Matches the category
  1. Panchayat
  2. Gram Sabha
  3. Zilla
  4. Nagar
  5. Mandal
  6. Taluka
Instructions
Slice only the names of local government bodies.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 8, Local Governments._

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