R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | UPSC,PCS,CDS,NDA Indian Polity

Which constitutional amendment substituted “Odia” for “Oriya”?

1. 91st
2. 93rd
3. 96th
4. 99th

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How many members are there in the Public Accounts Committee?

1. 20
2. 22
3. 24
4. 25

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Where has the Constitution declared the seat of the Supreme Court of India?

1. Mumbai
2. Hyderabad
3. Delhi
4. Chennai

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Where did the doctrine of judicial review originate?

1. Britain
2. India
3. USA
4. France

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who is empowered to direct that an act of Parliament does not apply to a scheduled area in the state?

1. Governor
2. President
3. Prime Minister
4. Members of Lok sabha

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who opined that, “The emergency power of the President is a fraud with the Constitution”?

1. B.N. Rao
2. H.N. Kunjru
3. K.M. Munshi
4. K.M. Nambiar

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who amongst the following is associated with judicial activism in India?

1. Justice P.N. Bhagwati
2. Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy
3. Justice D.A. Desai
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following statements is correct for Public Interest Litigation?

1. It only deals with the rights of the poor
2. It recognizes that ordinary marketplace for legal services fails to represent everybody
3. Both of them
4. None of them

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What are the privileges enjoyed by the office of Governor?

1. He is immune from any criminal proceedings
2. He cannot be arrested or imprisoned
3. Both of them
4. None of them

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who was the first woman to become the Governor of a State in India?

1. Serla Grewal
2. Padmaja Naidu
3. Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur
4. Sarojini Naidu

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which Article of the Indian Constitution states that the council of ministers shall be collectively responsible to the legislative assembly of the state?

1. Article 156
2. Article 158
3. Article 160
4. Article 164

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following in the consequence when a no-confidence motion is passed against the council of ministers in legislative assembly?

1. The concerned minister resigns
2. All the ministers have to resign
3. Lok Sabha is dissolved
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which act of Parliament abolished the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council?

1. J & K Reorganisation Act, 2017
2. J & K Reorganisation Act, 2018
3. J & K Reorganisation Act, 2019
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who has the power of the adjournment as well as adjournment sine die in the state legislature?

1. Prime Minister
2. Governor
3. Presiding officer
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which act regulates the procedure relating to the removal of a judge of a high court by the process of impeachment?

1. Judges Enquiry Act (1948)
2. Judges Enquiry Act (1958)
3. Judges Enquiry Act (1960)
4. Judges Enquiry Act (1968)

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Within how much time the state legislative assembly should be re-elected after the revocation of national emergency?

1. 2 months
2. 3 months
3. 6 months
4. 1 year

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who determines the salaries, allowances, privileges, leave and pension of the judges of a high court?

1. Parliament
2. Rajya Sabha
3. State Legislature
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A motion for removal of judge of High Court should be signed by how many members in case of Rajya Sabha?

1. 40
2. 50
3. 60
4. 70

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following come both in the jurisdiction of Supreme Court and High Courts?

1. Protection from violation of the Constitution
2. Dispute between Centre And States
3. Protection of Fundamental Rights
4. Mutual disputes among states

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who decides civil cases of small pecuniary stake?

1. District judge
2. Munsiff
3. Judicial magistrate
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Article 371-D contains special provisions with regard to which of the following states?

1. Manipur
2. Andhra Pradesh
3. Tripura
4. Maharashtra

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which committee recommended that there should also be reservation of seats for women in Panchayati Raj Institutions

1. Thungon Committee
2. L M Singhvi Committee
3. G.V.K. Rao Committee
4. Gadgil Committee

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In which year was the Gadgil Committee on Policy and Programmes constituted?

1. 1979
2. 1971
3. 1980
4. 1988

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who constitutes the finance commission to review the financial position of the panchayats?

1. Governor
2. President
3. Prime Minister
4. Chief Minister

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The PESA Act or the Extension Act was enacted in which of the following years?

1. 1996
2. 1997
3. 1998
4. 1999

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What kind of municipalities are provided for in Part IX-A to the Constitution of India?

1. Nagar panchayat
2. Municipal council
3. Municipal corporation
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

To which of the following areas, the provisions of municipality do not apply?

1. Scheduled areas
2. Tribal areas
3. Both of them
4. None of them

✅ Correct Answer: 3

On what criteria, urban bodies like Special Purpose Agency are set up?

1. Area
2. Function
3. Both of them
4. None of them

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which year was the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) established?

1. 1966
2. 1975
3. 1986
4. 1990

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In which year was the Armed Forces Tribunal Act passed?

1. 2001
2. 2003
3. 2005
4. 2007

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was the first chairman of Press Council of India?

1. J R Mudholkar
2. Chandramauli Kumar Prasad
3. M. Katju
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which act provided for the establishment of Railway Claims Tribunal?

1. Railway Claims Tribunal Act,1987
2. Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1995
3. Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 2000
4. Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 2015

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Intellectual Property Appellate Board has been established under which Ministry?

1. Ministry of Finance
2. Ministry of Home Affairs
3. Ministry of Commerce and Industry
4. Ministry of Commerce and Industry

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who appoints the chairperson and members of National Human Rights Commission?

1. President
2. Prime Minister
3. Supreme Court
4. Parliament

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who is authorized to remove the chief election commissioner?

1. The Parliament
2. The Supreme Court of India
3. The President of India
4. he President on the basis of a resolution passed to that effect by both the Houses of Parliament with special majority

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which part of the Constitution makes provisions with regard to the electoral system in India?

1. XI
2. XIV
3. XV
4. XX

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which article empowers the appropriate legislature (Parliament or state legislature) to establish a tribunal for the adjudication of election disputes?

1. Article 323A
2. Article 323B
3. Article 324
4. Article 325

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which state Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were used first?

1. Kerala
2. Maharashtra
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Gujarat

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who is constitutionally competent to declare under whatever circumstances a MP or MLA will stand disqualified

1. Election Commission
2. President
3. Parliament
4. Supreme Court

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who launched Systematic Voter’s Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP)?

1. Election Commission
2. President
3. President
4. Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Sivaji Festival was started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in which year?

1. 1890
2. 1891
3. 1895
4. 1899

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In which year a new Ministry of Tribal Affairs was created?

1. 1999
2. 2002
3. 2005
4. 2010

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In which year National Commission for Protection of Child Rights was set up?

1. 2000
2. 2002
3. 2007
4. 2002

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In which year Central Information Commission was established?

1. 2000
2. 2002
3. 2005
4. 2007

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following termed the renaming of the Planning Commission as aniti aur durniti?

1. Nitin Gadkari
2. Nirmala Sitharaman
3. Sitaram Yechury
4. Narendra Modi

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is an Ombudsman in India called?

1. Lokpal
2. Lokayukta
3. Both of them
4. None of them

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following have the French system of Administrative Courts?

1. Belgium
2. Greece
3. Turkey
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which part of the Constitution of India deals with the official languages?

1. Part XV
2. Part XVII
3. Part XVII
4. Part XX

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which article of the Constitution of India mentions about the language to be used in the Supreme Court and in the High Courts and for Acts, Bills?

1. Article 347
2. Article 348
3. Article 349
4. Article 350

✅ Correct Answer: 2