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Indian Polity UPPSC 2017 GS-I
Question

Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option D: Vote on Account – Parliamentary sanction of all budgetary demands for grants in a financial year.

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Vote on Account – Parliamentary sanction of all budgetary demands for grants in a financial year. ”.
1) A Policy Cut Motion seeks to reduce the budget demand to Rs. one, thereby indicating disapproval of the policy underlying the demand.

2) An Economy Cut Motion aims to reduce the budget demand by a specified amount, focusing on the need to economize expenditure.

3) A Token Cut Motion seeks to reduce the budget demand by a nominal amount, such as Rs. one hundred, to highlight a particular issue or concern.

4) A vote on account, as defined by Article 116 of the Indian Constitution, is a grant in advance for the central government to meet short-term expenditure needs from the Consolidated Fund of India, generally lasting for a few months till the new financial year kicks in.

Similar Questions:

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists.
List-I (Trade Unions) List – II (Party Affiliation)

A. Bhartiya Majdoor Sangh 1. Indian National Congress
B. Indian National Trade Union Congress 2. Communist Party of India
C. United Trade Union Congress 3. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
D. All India Trade Union Congress 4. Bhartiya Janta Party

Code:
A B C D
  1. A) 2 4 3 1
  2. B) 3 2 1 4
  3. C) 1 3 2 4
  4. D) 4 1 3 2
Which of the following CAN NOT be dissolved but abolished?
  1. A) House of People
  2. B) Council of State
  3. C) Legislative Assembly
  4. D) Legislative Council
Rajya Sabha can delay the Finance Bill sent for its consideration by Lok Sabha for a maximum period of
  1. A) One month
  2. B) One year
  3. C) Seven days
  4. D) Fourteen days
After how many days of absence from Parliament without permission can a M.P. be disqualified?
  1. A) 30 days
  2. B) 60 days
  3. C) 90 days
  4. D) 120 days
Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the code given below: List I List II

(A) Curtailment of the power judicial review - (a) 61st Amendment
(B) Abolition of Right to property as a fundamental right - (b) 42nd Amendment
(C) Lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 - (c) 38th Amendment
(D) Addition of the word secular in the preamble - (d) 44th Amendment
  1. A) A-a, B-b, C-d, D-
  2. B) A-b, B-d, C-a, D-c
  3. C) A-c, B-d, C-a, D-b
  4. D) A-d, B-a, C-c, D-b
What is the quorum to constitute a meeting of Lok Sabha?
  1. A) One-sixth of the total members of the House
  2. B) One-tenth of the total members of the House
  3. C) One-fourth of the total members of the House
  4. D) One-third of the total members of the House
Governor is liable to?
  1. A) Prime minister
  2. B) President
  3. C) Vidhan Sabha
  4. D) Chief minister
Red sea is an example of:
  1. A) Volcanic valley
  2. B) Eroded valley
  3. C) Axial trough
  4. D) U-shaped valley
The Directive Principles of State Policy may be classified in to which of the following parts for the sake of convenient study?
  1. A) Socialist
  2. B) Liberal intellectualistic
  3. C) Gandhian
  4. D) All of the above
Which of the following trials attracted world-wide publicity and drew sympathetic comments from Albert Einstein, H.G.Wells, Harold Laski and Roosevelt in favour of the convicts?
  1. A) INA trial
  2. B) Lahore conspiracy case
  3. C) Meerut conspiracy case
  4. D) None of the above
Study the following statements and select the correct answer from the code given below:

Assertion (A): The State Election Commission is a constitutional authority.
Reason (R): Elections to rural local bodies are overseen by the Election Commission of India.

Codes:
  1. A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of (A)
  2. B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
  3. C) (A) is false, but (R) is true
  4. D) (A) is true, but (R) is false
Match List I with List Il and select the correct answer using the code given below
List I [Product] - List II [Source]

(A) Opium - (a) Bark
(B) Hing - (b) Root
(C) Rubber - (c) Fruit
(D) Quinine - (d) Stem
  1. A) A-a, B-b, C-c, D-d
  2. B) A-c, B-b, C-d, D-a
  3. C) A-d, B-b, C-a, D-c
  4. D) A-b, B-d, C-c, D-a