Insights Static Quiz -173, 2018 –Polity

Solution: b)

A State Human Rights Commission can inquire into violation of human rights only in respect of subjects mentioned in the State List (List-II) and the Concurrent List (List-III) of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution.

Solution: c)

• State Human Rights Commission is a Non-constitutional body.
• If any such case is already being inquired into by the National Human Rights Commission or any other Statutory Commission, then the State Human Rights Commission does not inquire into that case.
• The commission can review the constitutional and other legal safeguards for the protection of human rights.
• Although the chairperson and members of a State Human Rights Commission are appointed by the governor, they can be removed only by the President (and not by the governor).

Solution: a)

• The Constitution of India provides for a federal system of government in the country.
• The term ‘federation’ has nowhere been used in the Constitution. Instead, Article 1 of the Constitution describes India as a ‘Union of States’.
• The Indian federal system is based on the ‘Canadian model’ and not on the ‘American model’.

Solution: b)

• Mandamus is a command issued by the court to a public official asking him to perform his official duties that he has failed or refused to perform. It can also be issued against any public body, a corporation, an inferior court, a tribunal or government for the same purpose.
• The writ of mandamus cannot be issued

(a) against a private individual or body;

(b) to enforce departmental instruction that does not possess statutory force;

(c) when the duty is discretionary and not mandatory;

(d) to enforce a contractual obligation;

(e) against the president of India or the state governors; and

(f) against the chief justice of a high court acting in judicial capacity.

Solution: d)

Union Powers Committee – Jawaharlal Nehru

Union Constitution Committee – Jawaharlal Nehru

States Committee – Jawaharlal Nehru

Finance and Staff Committee – Dr. Rajendra Prasad