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1. The Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 is:
a. Act No. 40 of 1996
b. Act No. 39 of 1996
c. Act No. 41 of 1996
d. Act No. 42 of 1996
2. The Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 received the assent of the President on:
a. 23rd December, 1996
b. 24th December, 1996
c. 25th December, 1996
d. 26th January, 1997
3. The Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 was published for general information on:
a. 23rd December, 1996
b. 24th December, 1996
c. 1st January, 1997
d. 26th January, 1997
4. The long title of the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 states that it is an Act:
a. To amend Part IX of the Constitution
b. To provide for the extension of the provisions of Part IX of the Constitution relating to the Panchayats to the Scheduled Areas
c. To establish Panchayats in all rural areas
d. To regulate elections to Panchayats
5. According to the enacting formula, the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 was enacted by Parliament in the:
a. Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India
b. Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India
c. Forty-seventh Year of the Republic of India
d. Forty-eighth Year of the Republic of India
6. Section 1 of the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 deals with:
a. Short title
b. Definition
c. Extension of Part IX of the Constitution
d. Exceptions and modifications
7. This Act may be called:
a. The Panchayats Act, 1996
b. The Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996
c. The Scheduled Areas Panchayats Act, 1996
d. The Panchayati Raj (Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996
8. Section 2 of the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 deals with:
a. Definitions
b. Gram Sabha
c. Scheduled Tribes
d. Panchayats
9. Under Section 2, "Scheduled Areas" means the Scheduled Areas as referred to in:
a. Article 243 of the Constitution
b. Clause (1) of Article 244 of the Constitution
c. Article 244A of the Constitution
d. Article 275 of the Constitution
10. Section 3 of the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 provides that:
a. Part IX of the Constitution shall not apply to the Scheduled Areas
b. The provisions of Part IX of the Constitution relating to Panchayats are extended to the Scheduled Areas subject to the exceptions and modifications provided in Section 4
c. Part IX of the Constitution applies to the Scheduled Areas without any exception or modification
d. The State Government may extend Part IX to the Scheduled Areas by notification
11. Section 4 of the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 deals with:
a. Exceptions and modifications to Part IX of the Constitution
b. Definitions
c. Short title
d. Repeal
12. Section 4 begins with:
a. A non obstante clause overriding Part IX of the Constitution
b. A saving clause
c. A repeal clause
d. A sunset clause
13. Under Section 4, the Legislature of a State shall not make any law under Part IX of the Constitution which is:
a. Inconsistent with the features specified in Section 4
b. Inconsistent with the Indian Penal Code
c. Inconsistent with the Code of Civil Procedure
d. Contrary to the directives of the Governor
14. Under Section 4(a), State legislation on Panchayats shall be in consonance with:
a. Only customary law
b. Only social and religious practices
c. Only traditional management practices of community resources
d. Customary law, social and religious practices, and traditional management practices of community resources
15. Under Section 4(b), a village shall ordinarily consist of:
a. Any revenue village notified by the State Government
b. A habitation or group of habitations or a hamlet or group of hamlets comprising a community managing its affairs in accordance with traditions and customs
c. Only a Gram Panchayat headquarters
d. A district administrative unit
16. Under Section 4(c), every village shall have:
a. A Panchayat Samiti
b. A Gram Sabha consisting of persons whose names are included in the electoral rolls for the Panchayat at the village level
c. A District Planning Committee
d. A Municipal Council
17. Under Section 4(d), every Gram Sabha shall be competent to safeguard and preserve:
a. Only community resources
b. Only cultural identity
c. Traditions and customs, cultural identity, community resources and the customary mode of dispute resolution
d. Only traditional occupations
18. Under Section 4(e)(i), the Gram Sabha shall:
a. Implement all development projects
b. Approve the plans, programmes and projects for social and economic development before their implementation by the Panchayat at the village level
c. Prepare the State budget
d. Audit Panchayat accounts
19. Under Section 4(e)(ii), the Gram Sabha shall be responsible for:
a. Conducting Panchayat elections
b. Identification or selection of beneficiaries under poverty alleviation and other programmes
c. Levying village taxes
d. Granting mining leases
20. Under Section 4(f), every Panchayat at the village level shall obtain from the Gram Sabha:
a. Annual budget approval
b. Certification of utilisation of funds for the plans, programmes and projects referred to in clause (e)
c. Approval for every meeting
d. Permission to collect taxes
21. Under Section 4(g), reservation of seats at every Panchayat in the Scheduled Areas shall be:
a. Equal for all communities
b. In proportion to the population of the communities for whom reservation is sought under Part IX of the Constitution
c. Determined solely by the State Government
d. Based on the latest census without reference to Part IX
22. Under the first proviso to Section 4(g), reservation for the Scheduled Tribes shall not be less than:
a. One-third of the total number of seats
b. Forty per cent of the total number of seats
c. One-half of the total number of seats
d. Two-thirds of the total number of seats
23. Under the second proviso to Section 4(g), all seats of Chairpersons of Panchayats at all levels shall be reserved for:
a. Scheduled Castes
b. Women
c. Scheduled Tribes
d. Other Backward Classes
24. Under Section 4(h), the State Government may nominate to the Panchayat at the intermediate or district level:
a. Any eminent citizen
b. Persons belonging to Scheduled Tribes having no representation in that Panchayat
c. Members of Parliament
d. Government officers
25. Under the proviso to Section 4(h), such nomination shall not exceed:
a. One-fifth of the total members to be elected
b. One-tenth of the total members to be elected
c. One-fourth of the total members to be elected
d. Two members
26. Under Section 4(i), before acquisition of land in the Scheduled Areas for development projects and before resettling or rehabilitating affected persons, whom shall be consulted?
a. Only the District Collector
b. The Gram Sabha or the Panchayats at the appropriate level
c. The State Cabinet
d. The Governor alone
27. Under Section 4(i), the actual planning and implementation of development projects in the Scheduled Areas shall be:
a. Coordinated at the Central level
b. Coordinated at the State level
c. Managed by the District Magistrate
d. Entrusted to the Gram Sabha exclusively
28. Under Section 4(j), planning and management of minor water bodies in the Scheduled Areas shall be entrusted to:
a. The State Government
b. Panchayats at the appropriate level
c. The Central Government
d. The District Collector
29. Under Section 4(k), prior to the grant of a prospecting licence or mining lease for minor minerals in the Scheduled Areas, the __________ shall be mandatory.
a. Consent of the Governor
b. Recommendation of the Gram Sabha or the Panchayats at the appropriate level
c. Approval of Parliament
d. Recommendation of the State Election Commission
30. Under Section 4(l), grant of concession for the exploitation of minor minerals by auction requires:
a. Prior recommendation of the Gram Sabha or the Panchayats at the appropriate level
b. Approval of the High Court
c. Consent of all villagers
d. Prior approval of the Central Government
31. Under Section 4(m), while endowing Panchayats in the Scheduled Areas with powers and authority as institutions of self-government, the State Legislature shall ensure that such powers are specifically vested in:
a. The Governor only
b. The Panchayats at the appropriate level and the Gram Sabha
c. The District Collector
d. The State Election Commission
32. Under Section 4(m)(i), the Panchayats at the appropriate level and the Gram Sabha shall be endowed with the power to:
a. Levy excise duty
b. Enforce prohibition or regulate or restrict the sale and consumption of any intoxicant
c. Issue liquor licences
d. Nationalise liquor shops
33. Under Section 4(m)(ii), the Panchayats at the appropriate level and the Gram Sabha shall have:
a. Ownership of minor minerals
b. Ownership of minor forest produce
c. Ownership of government forests
d. Ownership of all forest land
34. Under Section 4(m)(iii), the Panchayats at the appropriate level and the Gram Sabha shall have the power to:
a. Acquire private land
b. Prevent alienation of land in the Scheduled Areas and restore unlawfully alienated land of a Scheduled Tribe
c. Grant mining leases
d. Determine land revenue
35. Under Section 4(m)(iv), the Panchayats at the appropriate level and the Gram Sabha shall have the power to:
a. Manage village markets by whatever name called
b. Regulate municipal markets only
c. Establish industrial estates
d. Regulate wholesale trade
36. Under Section 4(m)(v), the Panchayats at the appropriate level and the Gram Sabha shall have the power to exercise control over:
a. Cooperative societies
b. Money lending to the Scheduled Tribes
c. Banking companies
d. Self-help groups
37. Under Section 4(m)(vi), the Panchayats at the appropriate level and the Gram Sabha shall have the power to exercise control over:
a. Educational institutions only
b. Institutions and functionaries in all social sectors
c. Public sector undertakings
d. Courts and tribunals
38. Under Section 4(m)(vii), the Panchayats at the appropriate level and the Gram Sabha shall have the power to control:
a. National development plans
b. Local plans and resources for such plans, including tribal sub-plans
c. State finance
d. Parliamentary constituencies
39. Under Section 4(n), State legislation endowing Panchayats with powers and authority shall contain safeguards to ensure that:
a. District Panchayats exercise all powers of lower Panchayats
b. Panchayats at the higher level do not assume the powers and authority of any Panchayat at the lower level or of the Gram Sabha
c. The Gram Sabha is subordinate to every Panchayat
d. The Governor exercises all Panchayat powers
40. Under Section 4(o), while designing the administrative arrangements in the Panchayats at the district level in the Scheduled Areas, the State Legislature shall endeavour to follow the pattern of:
a. The Fifth Schedule to the Constitution
b. The Sixth Schedule to the Constitution
c. Part IXA of the Constitution
d. The Seventh Schedule to the Constitution
41. Section 5 of the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 deals with:
a. Continuance of existing laws and Panchayats
b. Definitions
c. Rule-making power
d. Repeal
42. Under Section 5, notwithstanding anything in Part IX of the Constitution with the exceptions and modifications made by the Act, any law relating to Panchayats in force in the Scheduled Areas immediately before the Act received the President's assent shall continue:
a. Permanently
b. Until amended or repealed by a competent Legislature or other competent authority, or until the expiration of one year from the date of the President's assent, whichever is earlier
c. Only until the next Panchayat election
d. Until repealed by the Central Government only
43. For the continuance of an existing Panchayat law under Section 5, such law must have been:
a. Enacted after the commencement of the Act
b. In force in the Scheduled Areas immediately before the date on which the Act received the assent of the President
c. Enacted by Parliament only
d. Approved by the Governor after the Act came into force
44. Under Section 5, the continuance of an existing Panchayat law applies even if it is:
a. Consistent with Part IX of the Constitution
b. Inconsistent with Part IX of the Constitution as modified by this Act
c. Inconsistent with the Indian Penal Code
d. Inconsistent with the Code of Civil Procedure
45. Under the proviso to Section 5, all Panchayats existing immediately before the date on which the Act received the President's assent shall continue:
a. Indefinitely
b. Till the expiration of their duration unless sooner dissolved in the manner provided
c. Only for one year
d. Until fresh elections are notified by the Election Commission
46. Under the proviso to Section 5, an existing Panchayat may be dissolved before the expiry of its duration by:
a. An order of the Governor
b. A resolution passed by the Legislative Assembly of the State, or, where the State has a Legislative Council, by each House of the State Legislature
c. A notification of the District Magistrate
d. A resolution of the Gram Sabha