Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon – July 25, 2018

Option (d) is incorrect.

Mizoram shares boundary with Bangladesh and Myanmar only.

Sikkim shares international boundary with Bhutan in the East, China in the north and Nepal in the west.

West Bengal shares international boundary with Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. Arunachal Pradesh shares international boundary with Myanmar, China and Bhutan.

Upon expulsion from a political party, there is no automatic disqualification under the 10th Schedule of the Constitution from legislative assembly or Parliament and that member will continue as an unattached member as per the direction of the Speaker. However, if there is any overt act of either joining any other political party voluntarily or defies any whip of any political party then he will attract the provision of the 10th Schedule and action can be taken against him by the Speaker.

Statement 1 is incorrect.

The Constitution of I dia conferred the power of judicial review on both the

Supreme Court as well as High Court.

Statement 2 is incorrect.

The purpose of judicial review is to review legislation of Parliament and State Legislatures and subordinate legislations and administrative action of the Union and the States and authorities of the state, along with constitutional amendments.

Statement 3 is correct.

Judicial review is a part of basic structure of the constitution.

Statement 1 is incorrect.

The Rajya Sabha does not share legislative powers equally with Lok Sabha in matters such as creation of All India Services. The Rajya Sabha has been given two exclusive or special powers that are not enjoyed by the Lok Sabha. They are:

1. It can authorise the Parliament to make a law on a subject enumerated in the State List (Article 249).
2. It can authorise the Parliament to create new All-India Services common to both the Centre and states (Article 312).

Statement 2 is incorrect.

A resolution passed by the Rajya Sabha to empower the Parliament to make laws on a matter enumerated in the State List must be supported by two- thirds of the members present and voting. Such a resolution remains in force for one year; it can be renewed any number of times but not exceeding one year at a time. The laws cease to have effect on the expiration of six months after the resolution has ceased to be in force.

Absolute majority: Absolute majority refers to the majority of more than 50% of the total strength of the house. Example:

Total strength of Lok Sabha: 545

Absolute Majority: 273

There are instances when such majority is needed with other majority which would be thus called special majority.

Statement 1 is incorrect.

A senior advocate can appear with any Advocate-on-record in the Supreme Court or with any junior in any other Court or tribunal.

Statement 2 is correct.

Apart from Advocate-on-record, no one can file any document in front of the Supreme Court.

Statement 1 is incorrect.

The CVC is conceived to be the apex vigilance institution, free of control from any executive authority, monitoring all vigilance activity under the Central Government and advising various authorities in Central Government organisations in planning, executing, reviewing and reforming their vigilance work.

The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances is the nodal agency of the Government of India for administrative reforms as well as redress of public grievances relating to the states in general and those pertaining to Central Government agencies in particular.

Statement 2 is correct.

It is vested with the power to regulate its own procedure. It has all the powers of a civil court and its proceedings have a judicial character. It may call for information or report from the Central government or its authorities so as to enable it to exercise general supervision over the vigilance and anti-corruption work in them.

Statement 1 incorrect.

The Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Act, 2003 giving statutory status to the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) was passed by both Houses of Parliament in December 2003.

Statement 2 is incorrect.

One of the functions of this fund is to provide widespread and non- discriminatory access to quality ICT services at affordable prices to people in rural and remote areas. Thus, it doesn’t intend to provide free services.

Statement 3 is correct.

Funds for USOF come from the Universal Service Levy (USL) of 5% charged from all the telecom operators on their Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) which are then deposited into the Consolidated Fund of India, and require prior parliamentary approval to be dispatched.