Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon – February 7, 2018

The Objective resolution adopted by the Constituent Assembly had the fundamental commitments of providing equality, liberty, democracy, sovereignty and a cosmopolitan identity to all the people of India, therefore statement 1, 2 and 4 are correct and statement 3 is incorrect.

Provisions adapted from different Constitution:

British Constitution:

• First past the post
• Parliamentary form of Government
• The idea of rule of law
• Institution of the speaker and her/his role
• Law-making procedure

United States Constitution:

• Charter of Fundamental Rights
• Power of Judicial Review and independency of the judiciary

Irish Constitution:

• Directive Principles of State Policy

French Constitution:

• Principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

Canadian Constitution:

• A quasi-federal form of government (a federal system with a strong central government)
• The idea of Residual powers

Statement 1 is correct:

Local self-government already has 1/3^rd reservations for women, which is constitutionally mandated, as per 73^rd and 74^th constitutional amendment.

Statement 2 and 3 are correct:

Reservation of seats in Lok Sabha and State legislative assembly requires amendment of constitution.

Statement 4 is incorrect:

Change is UPSC rules is enough to bring Reservation of seats in All India Services

The Linguistic minority has been defined in the Constitution as follows:

• It is based on the state
• It must have less than 50% population speaking particular language, the population can be migrated, so statement 1 is correct and 2 is incorrect.
• They can request respective state government to declare their language as official state language, so statement 3 is correct.
• Statement 4 is incorrect, because the definition of Linguistic minority has been defined in constitution and it is not defined by central government

Doctrine of Waiver: In which individual gives letter to the state saying it can violate his/her fundamental rights, persons giving up their fundamental rights willingly.

However in India Fundamental rights are not waivable and government cannot wave.

These are the following reports published by World Bank:

• Ease of Doing business
• World Development Report
• Global Economic Prospect report
• Remittance report
• Ease of Living report
• India Development Update
• Universal health Coverage Index
• The Service Trade Restriction Index

Statement 1 is incorrect:

Australia Group is an informal group which seeks to prevent the spread of chemical and biological weapons and technology and not the nuclear weapons.

Statement 2 is incorrect:

Participants in the Australia group do not undertake any legally binding obligations. The effectiveness of their cooperation depends solely on shared commitment to non-proliferation goals and the strength of their respective national measures.