Local Self Government

Consider the following statements with respect to mandatory provisions of 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act:

1. If a Panchayat is dissolved prematurely, elections must be held within six months.
2. Newly elected members serve the full term of five years.

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Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 provides for extending the provisions of 73rd constitutional amendment to

1. Schedule V areas of the country
2. Schedule VI areas of the country

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Consider the following statements regarding District Planning Committee:

1. District Planning Committee should be constituted for all districts of all the states in the country except for Jammu and Kashmir.
2. DPC is composed of elected members of all the local bodies within the District, Rural and Urban.
3. Maximum one fifth of the members of DPC are Nominated.

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Consider the following statements regarding Cantonment Boards

1. A cantonment board is established for municipal administration for civilian population in the cantonment area.
2. Cantonment boards works under the administrative control of State Government
3. The military officer commanding the station is the ex-officio Vice President of the Board.

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Which of the following is provided by the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act?

1. Nagar Panchayat
2. District Planning Committee
3. Zila Parishad
4. Panchayat Samiti

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Consider the following about Panchayat (Extension to the Schedule Areas) Act 1996:

1. It is enacted to provide self-rule to tribal population
2. The prime motive is to promote participatory democracy among marginalized tribal population
3. It empowers the gram sabha

Which of the above is/are constitutional provisions for securing judicial independence?

Who among the following has been conferred with special powers related to schedule area governance?

Consider the following regarding Gram Sabha

1. Article 243-A provides for Gram Sabha within area of panchayat at the village level
2. It consists of all the people belonging to the village panchayat

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Panchayati Raj is a system of:

Consider the following statements regarding 73rd Amendment Act.

1. It provides for 3-tier structure of Panchayati Raj in all states of India irrespective of the population
2. Members of panchayats at village and intermediary level are directly elected by the people whereas at district level are indirectly elected

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Which of the following is/are the provisions under the 73rd Amendment act of 1992.

1. The intermediary level of the three-tier Panchayati Raj structure is the Mandal.
2. The amendment also made a provision for the mandatory creation of the Gram Sabha.
3. The amendment provides for indirect elections to the district bodies.

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Consider the following statements regarding provision for reservations in Panchayati Raj institutions is India.

1. Reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are provided in proportion to their population.
2. States can also provide for reservations for the backward castes (OBCs)
3. These reservations apply to the positions of Chairpersons or ‘Adhyakshas‘at all the three levels.
4. The provisions of the 73rd amendment are not made applicable to the areas inhabited by the Adivasi populations in many States of India.

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What are the functions of district planning agencies?

1. Crystallisation of local needs and objectives
2. Listing and mapping of amenities
3. Monitoring and review of district plan and programmes.
4. To consider important questions of social and economic policy affecting development.

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Assertion (A): A district is accepted as a unit for development and planning.

What is true for a Regional Office?

1. A Regional Office is an intermediate level administrative set-up between the state headquarters and its district organization.
2. The jurisdiction of a Regional Officer extends to revenue administration, law & order administration and development administration.
3. The examples of a Regional Officer include Deputy Inspector General of Police, Regional Transport Officer etc

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What are the features of 73rd amendment act of 1992?

1. It is a revolutionary concept to transforrm participatory democracy into representative democracy.
2. Gram Sabha is the foundation of the panchayati raj system.
3. The act also authorises the legislature of a state to make any provision for reservation of seats in any panchayat or offices of chairperson in the panchayat at any level in favour of backward classes.
4. The act does not apply to the states of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram.

What are the objectives of PESA, 1996?

1. To provide self-rule for the bulk of the tribal population.
2. To prevent panchayats at the higher level from assuming the powers and authority of panchayats at the lower level of the gram sabha.
3. To have village governance with representative democracy and to make the gram panchayat a nucleus of all activities.

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What is a District Planning Committee?

1. It consolidates the plans prepared by panchayats and municipalities in the district
2. The act lays down that two-thirds of the members of a district planning committee should be elected by the elected members of the district panchayat and municipalities in the district from amongst themselves.
3. The chairperson of such committee shall forward the development plan to the District Magistrate's office.

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What are the roles and functions of the District Rural Development Agency?

1. The DRDAs are the implementing agencies for different rural development programmes.
2. The DRDAs shall coordinate and oversee the conduct of the BPL Census and such other surveys that are required from time to time.
3. The DRDAs will function under the chairmenship of the Zilla Parishad.
4. It shall be the duty of the DRDAs to oversee and ensure that the benefits specifically earmarked for certain target groups (SC/ST, women and disabled) reach them.

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In which of the following bodies representing urban governments, elected members may be present?

1. Town Area Committee
2. Notified Area Committee
3. Cantonment board
4. Township

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Consider the following statements in the context of Panchayati Raj Institutions:

1. The reservation for both SCs and STs are provided at all the levels of Panchayati Raj.
2. The terms of all the three levels of Panchayati Raj Institutions are co terminous.
3. All the three levels of Panchayati Raj Institutions are elected directly by the people.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Gram Sabha is a

1. Body composed of all the adult persons in the village.
2. Assembly of elders who work for community development program.
3. Assembly containing of all the registered voters in a village.
4. Traditional Panchayat that solves legal disputes in village.

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The Panchayat Extension to Schedule Areas (PESA ACT 1996) doesn’t provide which of the following objective?

Consider the following about CANTONMENT BOARD:

1. Established for municipal administration for civilian population in the cantonment area.
2. Set up under the provision of Cantonment Act 2006, a legislation enacted by state government.
3. It works under administrative control of Home Ministry.
4. Cantonment board consist of partly elected and partly nominated members.

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Which of the following committees is not related to the establishment of local governance in India?

“A town is developing fast due to industrialization”. For this town which of the following types of Urban Government is appropriate?

Which of the following, if amended, would have a bearing on democratic decentralization, as envisaged in the Indian Constitution?

1. Preamble
2. Part IV
3. Part IX
4. Seventh Schedule
5. Eleventh Schedule

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Which of the following are correct about the 73rd Amendment Act, 1992?

1. It recommended constitution of District Planning committee to prepare draft development plan for the district.
2. Under the Act, Gram Sabha is supposed to discuss the Annual Financial statement of Gram Panchayat.
3. Gram Sabha has been vested with powers of consultation on land acquisition.
4. The Act came into force on 23 April 1992.

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Which of the following constitutes an important problem of urban local government?

Which of the following are the sources of Municipal revenue?

1. Revenue from the taxation by the municipal bodies.
2. Revenue from non-tax sources under the control of municipal bodies.
3. Loans.
4. Share from Income Tax.

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The following are associated with well known local government policies:

1. Balwant Rai Mehta
2. Lord Mayo
3. Lord Ripon
4. Ashok Mehta

Which is the correct chronological sequence of the above?

Of the following, which one is not an item among 29 items specified for Panchayats?

Which of the following are the compulsory provisions of 73rd Constitution Amendment Act relating to Panchayati Raj Institutions?

1. Indirect elections of the chairpersons of Panchayats at the intermediate and district levels.
2. Fresh elections within six months in case of dissolution.
3. Provision for reservation of seats for backward classes.
4. Giving representations to MP’s MLA’s.

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In which of the following recommendations, the Ashok Mehta Committee differed from Balwant Rai Mehta Committee?

1. Two-tier system of Panchayati Raj.
2. Official participation of political parties at all levels of Panchayat elections.
3. Zila Parishad as the executive body.
4. Entrusting development functions to the Zila Parishad.

Which of the given statements is NOT correct?

Consider the following regarding Gram Sabha

1. Article 243-A provides for Gram Sabha within area of panchayat at the village level
2. It consists of all the people belonging to the village panchayat

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Panchayati Raj is a system of

Consider the following statements regarding 73rd Amendment Act.

1. It provides for 3-tier structure of Panchayati Raj in all states of India irrespective of the population
2. Members of panchayats at village and intermediary level are directly elected by the people whereas at district level are indirectly elected

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Which of the following committees recommended the replacement of the three-tier system of Panchayati Raj by a two-tier system?

The PESA Act gives radical governance powers to the tribal community and recognizes its traditional community rights over local natural resources. Which of the following statements in the context of powers of Gram Sabha are parts of the provisions of the act?

1. The power to enforce prohibition or to regulate or restrict the sale and consumption of any intoxicant.
2. The ownership of minor forest produce.
3. The power to prevent alienation of land in the Scheduled Areas and to take appropriate action to restore any unlawfully alienated land of a Scheduled Tribes.
4. The power to manage village markets by whatever name called.
5. The power to exercise control over money lending to the Scheduled Tribes.

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Consider the following statements in the context of the 73rd constitutional amendment act:

1. The Chairperson of a Panchayat and other members of a Panchayat whether or not chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies in the Panchayat area shall have the right to vote in the meetings of the Panchayats.
2. The Chairperson of a Panchayat at the village level shall be elected in such a manner as the Legislature of a State may, by law provide.
3. A Panchayat at the intermediate level or district level shall be elected by, and from amongst the elected members.
4. Not less than one-third (including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes) of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in every Panchayat shall be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a Panchayat.

Which of the above statements are true?

Consider the following statements.

1. Municipal Corporation of Delhi comes under Central Government.
2. Municipal Corporation of Delhi is largest Municipal Corporation of the world that serving almost 11 million people of the city.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Which of the following has/have not been provided by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment relating to Panchayati Raj?

1. 1/3rd of seats in all elected rural local bodies shall be reserved for women at all levels.
2. The states will constitute their finance commissions to allocate resources to Panchayati Raj institutions.
3. If the Panchayati Raj bodies are superceded or dissolved by the state government, the elections shall be held within six months.
4. The Panchayati Raj elected functionaries shall be disqualified to hold their offices if they have more than two children.

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Which of the following statements regarding Panchayati Raj is/are incorrect?

1. It was introduced in the country in 1959.
2. Andhra Pradesh was first state where Panchayati Raj was introduced.
3. Panchayati Raj is based on the principle of community cooperation and development.

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Which among the following is correct about the Notified Area Committee?

1. It is an area which does not necessarily fulfil all the conditions for the constitution of the municipality.
2. It is created in an area which is fast developing and where new industries are set up.
3. Notified Area Committee is constituted by an act of legislature.

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Which of the following statements regarding the provisions of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 is/are correct?

1. Constitution of a State Finance Commission after every five years to review the financial position of the panchayats is compulsory provision of the Act.
2. Granting financial powers to the panchayats, that is authorizing them to levy, collect and appropriate taxes, duties, tolls and fees comes under voluntary provisions of the Act.
3. Art. 243 H is related to the powers to impose taxes by, and funds of, the panchayats.

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Consider the following about Panchayat (Extension to the Schedule Areas) Act 1996:

1. It is enacted to provide self-rule to tribal population
2. The prime motive is to promote participatory democracy among marginalized tribal population
3. It empowers the gram sabha

Which of the above is/are constitutional provisions for securing judicial independence?

Regarding reservation of seats in Panchayati Raj Act, which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. The act provides for the reservation of not less than one-third of the total number of seats for women excluding the number of seats reserved for women belonging to SCs and STs.
2. The acts provides for the reservation of seats for STs and SCs at every level of panchayat in proportion of their population to the total population of panchayat area.
3. The act does not authorise the legislature of state to make any provision for reser-vation of seats in any panchayat or offices of chairperson for backward classes.

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Which of the following functions have been laid down in the 12th schedule of the constitution of India for the municipalities?

1. Urban poverty alleviation.
2. Planning for social and economic develo-pment.
3. Urban forestry.

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Consider the following statements regarding salient features of the 73rd Amendment Act of 1992:

1. The act provides for a Gram Sabha as the foundation of the Panchayati Raj system.
2. The act provides for a three tier system of Panchayati Raj in every state irrespective of population strength.
3. All the members, including chairpersons of Panchayats at all the levels shall be elected directly by the people.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

In which among the following states there exists a Panchayati Raj Institution at district/Intermediate or village level:

1. Mizoram
2. Nagaland
3. Meghalaya

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Under Panchayat Extension in Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, issues allotted to Panchayats is/are:

1. Land alienation and land acquisition
2. Community resources
3. Mines are minerals and leasing of land
4. Preparation of intoxicants
5. Non-timber forest produce

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73rd constitutional amendment Act which aims for rural local self-government provides for which of the following?

1. State Election Commission to conduct all elections to the panchayats.
2. State Finance commission to review the financial position of the panachayats.
3. District Planning Committee to prepare a draft development plan for the district.

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Which of the following provisions are covered under the Panchayat (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996?

1. Every village shall contain a grama sabha whose members are included in the electoral list for the panchayats at village level.
2. Planning and management of minor water bodies are entrusted to the panchayats.
3. A state legislation on panchayats in the scheduled area should take care of the customs, religious practices and traditional management practices of community resources.

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73rd Constitutional Amendment Act introduced which of the following provisions in Constitution?

1. It gave a constitutional status to Panchayat.
2. It provides for Gram Sabha.
3. 27% reservation for Ordinary Backward Classes.
4. Term of office of Panchayat to be six years.

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Which one of the following is not correct?

Which of the following are the compulsory provisions of the 73th Constitutional Amen-dment Act of the Constitution of India?

1. Reservation of seats for SCs and STs at all the three levels.
2. Providing reservation of seats for backward classes at any level.
3. Granting powers and authority to the panchayats to enable them to function as institution of self-government.
4. Organisation of Gram Sabha in a village or group of villages.

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Match the following pairs.

A B C D

Consider the following statements:

1. Gram Sabha comprises all adult members of a Panchayat which includes one or more villages
2. The person of the village who is 18 years or more or has the right to vote, is a member of the Gram Sabha

Which of the above statement/s is/are false?

Consider the following statements:

1. The institute running the administration of big cities is called Municipal Corporation, while small towns are administered by the Municipality
2. Commissioner, administrative staff and councilors are appointed by the government
3. The council and councilors make decisions on various urban issues, while the commissioner and administrative officers implement these decisions

Which of the above statement/s is/are true?

Consider the following statements:

1. Property Tax
2. Taxes on water and other facilities
3. Education Tax
4. Entertainment Tax

Which of the above is/are included in the source of Municipal Corporation's income?

Consider the following statements:

1. Based on the instructions given in the Constitution, there is uniformity in the laws related to Panchayat across all states
2. With the help of the Panchayat Samiti, the District Council arranges the distribution of allotment in all Panchayats

Which of the following is/are the sources of revenue for Gram Panchayats?

1. Revenue from the taxes imposed on houses and markets
2. Amounts for schemes for different government departments that are routed through the district and the District Council
3. Grants for community works

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Which of the following statements related to the Gram Sabha is true?

Which of the following committees is/are related to the Panchayati Raj Institutions in India?

1. Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
2. Tarkunde Committee
3. Ashok Mehta Committee
4. Hanumantha Rao Committee

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Choose the correct statement/s regarding the Gram Sabha:

1. Gram Sabha is an assembly of all the adults living in the area of a Panchayat
2. The minimum age for becoming a member of the Gram Sabha is 21 years

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Which of the following functions are performed by the Gram Panchayat?

1. Construction and maintenance of roads, drains, school buildings, water sources and other public utility buildings
2. Imposing and collecting local taxes
3. Implementing Government schemes meant to provide employment to the people of the villages

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Choose the correct statement/s from the following choices:

1. District Panchayat is the second layer of the development block after Gram Panchayat
2. Laws related to Panchayat are uniform across the states

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Choose the correct statement/s from the following choices:

1. Lekhpal's works include measuring and keeping the records of lands
2. Apart from collecting the land tax from the farmers, the Lekhpal gives information to the government about the crops that are growing in their area

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Choose the correct statement/s from the following choices:

1. The institution that runs the administration of small towns is called Municipality, whereas the governing body of big cities is called Municipal Corporation
2. The Councilor of the city takes decision on various issues, which are implemented by the Municipal Commissioner
3. Municipal Commissioner is elected while the Councilor is appointed by the government

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Which of the following statements is false regarding the local self-government bodies?

Consider the following statements regarding the Panchayati Raj System:

1. Head and members of the Gram Panchayat are directly elected by the people
2. Members of Panchayat Samiti are directly elected by the people
3. All persons of the village are the members of Gram Sabha

Which of the above statements is/are true?

Which of the following bodies is/are part of Panchayati Raj System?

1. Gram Panchayat
2. Panchayat Samiti
3. District Council

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