Administrative Machinery in India Online Test 12th Political Science Lesson 6 Questions in English

1. Our Constitution provide for which administrative system?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Liberalization does not mean that the bureaucracy is being relieved from excess burden, but it means reducing government’s regulatory control over private sector. In the same way, we now found a trend towards more centralization in policy making and policy enforcement.
2. The Indian Administrative System, which worked for the democratic socialist economy and planned economy earlier, is now given the task of more socialistic and more centralized taxation system. This new arrangement now known as New Private Management (NPM) movement in public administration.

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The Indian Administrative System has to come up with the enforced new economic order. It has to strive for opening domestic markets to new investors, i.e. corporate from both India and abroad. Now the administrative system has to work for disinvestment, desubsidization, liberalizing and centralizing the tax – system in favour of trade and investors.
2. Mining, ports, petroleum, airways are systematically being corporatized. Labour laws are being revised. The Indian bureaucracy has to carry out the guidelines of transnational or global bodies like World Bank, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund in the domestic arena.

4. The Political head assisted by minister of state and deputy minister is known as ____

5. Ministry of Central Government has a how many tier structure?

6. Which among the following designation does not come under Executive organization?

Arrange the following organisation of Ministry in hierarchy order from Highest to Lowest

1. Division
2. Department
3. Branch
4. Wing
5. Section

8. In which year Under the Government of India, Rules of Business, the ministries departments in the Government of India were classified into different levels?

9. Which Article of the Indian Constitution authorizes the President of India to make rules for more convenient transaction of business of Central Government and for allocation of such business among the ministries?

Match the following organisation with its designation post
i. Division – 1. Secretary
ii. Wing – 2. Section Officer
iii. Department – 3. Deputy Secretary
iv. Branch – 4. Joint Secretary
v. Section – 5. Under Secretary

11. Which is a policy making body of the government and is not, to undertake work of execution, unless necessitated by the lack of official agencies to perform certain tasks?

Which among the following function of central secretariat is incorrect

1. Central Secretariat is Decision makers in the discharge of government policy making and parliamentary responsibilities. Framing legislation, rules and principles of procedure. Assist Ministers in Sectoral planning and programme formulation.
2. Budgeting and control of expenditure in respect of activities of the Ministry/ department. Initiating steps to develop greater personnel and organizational competence both in the ministry/ department and its executive agencies.
3. Coordination and interpretation of policies, assisting other branches of government and maintaining contact with state administration. Supervision and control over the execution of policies and programmes.

13. The Cabinet Secretariat functions directly under whom?

14. Who is responsible for the administration of the Government of India (Transaction of Business)?

15. Which is the main wing and provides aid, advice and assistance to the Union cabinet?

16. The Cabinet Secretariat has how many wings?

17. Which among the following organisation does not come under Intelligence Wing?

Which among the following secretarial assistance, provided by Cabinet Secretariat to the Cabinet and Cabinet committees is incorrect

1. Convening of the meetings of the Cabinet and its Committees on the orders of the Prime Minister. Preparation and circulation of the agenda. Circulation of papers related to the cases on the agenda.
2. Preparation of record of discussions. Circulation of the record of discussions after obtaining the approval of the Prime Minister.
3. Monitoring implementation of decisions taken by the Cabinet and its Committees. The Cabinet Secretariat is the custodian of the papers of the Cabinet meetings.

19. Who is the senior most civil servant in India?

20. When the office of cabinet secretary was created in India?

21. Who was the first Cabinet secretary of India?

22. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) was originally called what until 1977?

23. The Prime Minister’s Secretariat was renamed as Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) during whose ministry?

24. When the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (O/o of PSA) was set-up?

Which among the following reason to set-up Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser is incorrect?

1. Evolve polices, strategies and missions for the generation of innovations and support systems for multiple applications. Generate science and technology tasks in critical infrastructure, economic and social sectors in partnership with Government departments, institutions and industry.
2. Office of PSA also services the Indian Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (ISTIAC).  Office of PSA has been placed administratively under the Cabinet Secretariat in August, 2008.

26. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is headed by whom to the Prime Minister?

27. Whose task is to, assure a steady source of people who can contribute to the success of an organization and meet the growing demands of development?

28. Which among the following is not the aim of Personnel Administration?

Which among the following statement is correct regarding Scope of Personnel Administration

1. Personnel administration incorporates all aspects of management of persons in organization. The primary objective of personnel administration, is to ensure effective utilization of human resources in pursuit of organizational goals.
2. The personnel administration departments should design and establish an effective working relationship among all the members of an organization by monopolising of organizational tasks into jobs, defining clearly the responsibility and authority for each job and avoiding interference with other jobs in the organization.
3. The aim is to create cordial relations among the employees and do away with frictional situations arising out of personal jealousies, rivalries and prejudices. Personnel administration also has to curb unfavourable practices like favouritism and nepotism in an organization.

30. Which among the following is not Functions of Personnel Administration?

Which among the following is incorrect about the Advantages of having an independent, permanent and impartial civil service?

1. A credible recruitment process through an impartial agency provides a defence against such abuse. A permanent civil service provides continuity and develops expertise as well as institutional memory for effective policy making.
2. A Temporary and impartial civil service is more likely to assess the long-term social payoffs of certain government policy whereas the foreign executive may have a tendency to look for short term political gain.
3. A permanent civil service helps to ensure uniformity in public administration and also acts as a unifying force particularly in vast and culturally diverse nations. A permanent civil service like any other reputable profession is likely to evolve over time an ethical basis for its functioning.

Which among the following statement is correct

1. A unique feature of the Indian Administration System, is the creation of certain services to the Centre, namely, the All India Services. These are composed of officers who are in the exclusive employment of the Centre, and may at any time be at the disposal of either.
2. The officers of these Services are recruited on an all-India basis with common qualifications and uniform scales of pay, and notwithstanding their division among the States, each of them forms a single service with a common status and a common standard of rights and remuneration.
3. Like other federal policies, the Centre and the constituent states, under the Indian Constitution, have their separate public services to administer their respective affairs. The officers of these Services are exclusively in the employment of the Union Government.

33. Which year All India Service Act was commenced?

34. The All India Services Act, 1951 provides that the who may make rules for regulating the recruitment and the conditions of service of persons appointed to the All India Services?

35. Presently which among the following is not considered as All India Services?

36. How many modes of recruitment to the All India Services are there?

37. Which among the following statement is correct

1. The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the direct descendant of the old Indian Civil Service. As an all India service, it is under the ultimate control of the Union Government, but is divided into State cadres, each under the immediate control of a State Government. The practice of rotating senior officers in and out of the Secretariat position is known in official parlance as the tenure system.
2. The salary and the pension of these officers are met by the Central. But the disciplinary control and imposition of penalties rest with the State Government which is guided, in this respect, by the advice of the Union Public Service Commission. The majority of individual officers have an opportunity of serving at least one spell of duty under the Union Government.
3. On appointment, the officers are posted to different State cadres. The strength of each State cadre, however, is so fixed as to include are serve of officers who can be deputed for service under the Union Government for one or more ‘tenures’ of three, four or five years before they return to the State cadre.

38. Where most of the Indian Police Service officers work?

39. Recruits to the IPS are first given how many months of foundational training?

40. Where Sardar Patel National Police Academy is located?

41. In which post IPS officer was appointed after completing year’s training and probationer passes an examination conducted by the UPSC?

42. The Indian Police Service is managed by which Ministry?

43. When Indian Forest Service became operational by an Act of Parliament?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Indian Forest Service recruits are chosen long with other all India service by the Union Public Service Commission, which consists of a written test and interview. Though it is an All India Service, its nature is same as that of a generalized civil service, but is specialized and functional.
2. It is managed by the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms which is in charge of making rules of recruitment, discipline and conditions of service regarding all India Services.

45. After selection of Indian Forest Service the appointees undergo a foundational course lasting how many months along with successful candidates of the other all India and Central Services?

46. After the foundation course, where the probationers move to their own Academy (Indian Forest Institute)?

47. The Indian Foreign Service comes under which class of Central Civil Service?

48. Indian Foreign Service is managed by which ministry?

49. Which Ministry is concerned with the pay scales and other financial aspects of conditions of Indian Foreign service?

Which among the following statement is correct regarding Indian Foreign Service officer allowance?

1. Local cost of living and other expenditure which an officer serving abroad necessarily incurs either at home or abroad, over and above that an officer of corresponding grade serving in India.
2. The representational expenditure, i.e., expenditure which while optional for a private individual is obligatory for a member of the service resident, by virtue of his official position.

51. The recruit of the Indian Foreign Service undergoes a training programme which covers a period of how many years?

52. Which year was the origin of Public Service Commission in India?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Public Service Commission concept of a body intended to be charged primarily with the regulation of service matters, found a somewhat more practical shape in the Government of India Act, 1919.
2. Section 26(C) of the Act provided for the establishment in India of a Public Service Commission which should “discharge, in regard to recruitment and control of the Public Services in India, such functions as may be assigned thereto by rules made by the British Council”.
3. After passing of the Government of India Act, 1919, in spite of a prolonged correspondence among various levels on the functions and machinery of the body to be set up, no decision was taken on setting up of the body.

54. Which commission in their report in the year 1924, recommended that the statutory Public Service Commission contemplated by the Government of India Act, 1919 should be established without delay?

55. When the Public Service Commission was set up in India for the first time?

56. Who was the first Chairman of the Public Service Commission?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The functions of the Public Service Commission were not laid down in the Government of India Act, 1919, but were regulated by the Public Service Commission (Functions) Rules, 1926 framed under sub-section (2) of Section 96(C) of the Government of India Act, 1919.
2. The Government of India Act, 1935 envisaged a Public Service Commission for the Federation and a Provincial Public Service Commission for each Province or group of Provinces.
3. Therefore, in terms of the provisions of the Government of India Act, 1935 and with its coming into effect on 1st April, 1937, the Public Service Commission became the Federal Public Service Commission.

58. Which year the Federal Public Service Commission came to be known as the Union Public Service Commission?

59. The Union Public Service Commission is a Constitutional Body established under which Article of the Constitution of India?

Which among the following is incorrect regarding Union Public Service Commission mandated responsibilities?

1. Making recruitment by conduct of competitive examinations, selection through interviews, advising on the suitability of officers for appointment on promotion and transfer-on-deputation, Advising the Government on all matters relating to methods of recruitment to various services.
2. Framing and amendment of Recruitment Rules, disciplinary cases relating to various Civil Services, Miscellaneous matters relating to grant of extra-ordinary pensions, reimbursement of legal expenses etc
3. Advising the Government on any matter referred to the Commission by the Prime Minister of India and on the request of the Chief Minister of a State, to serve all or any of the needs of a State relating to recruitment, with the approval of the Prime Minister.

61. In order to full fill its Constitutional obligations, the Union Public Service Commission is supported by Officers/Staff broadly known _____

62. Which part in constitution deals with the State Public Service Commission?

63. Who appoint the chairman and other members of state public service commission?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. No qualifications are prescribed for the commission’s membership except that one-half of the members of the commission should be such persons who have held office for at least ten years either under the government of India or under the Government of a state. The Constitution also authorizes the governor to determine the conditions of service of the chairman and members of the Commission.
2. The chairman and members of the Commission hold office for a term of ten years or until they attain the age of 60 years, whichever is earlier (in the case of UPSC, the age limit is 62 years). However, they can relinquish their offices at any time by addressing their resignation to the governor.
3. The governor can appoint one of the members of the State Public Service Commission as an acting chairman in the following two circumstances; a) When the office of the chairman falls vacant; or b) When the chairman is unable to perform his functions due to absence or some other reason.

65. Who can remove the chairman and members of a State Public Service Commission?

66. Which among the following circumstance is incorrect on which the President can’t remove the member of State Public Service Commission?

67. If president wants to remove the chairman or any other member of State Public Service Commission for misbehaviour, he has to refer the matter to whom for an enquiry?

Which among the following statement regarding state public service commission is correct

1. The chairman or a member of a State Public Service Commission can be removed from office by the president only in the manner and on the grounds mentioned in the Constitution. Therefore, they enjoy the security of tenure.
2. The conditions of service of the chairman or a member, though determined by the president, cannot be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment. The chairman or a member of a State Public Service Commission is (after having completed his first term) eligible for reappointment to that office
3. The entire expense including the salaries, allowances and pensions of the chairman and members of a State Public Service Commission are charged on the consolidated fund of the state. Thus, they are not subject to vote of the state legislature.

Which among the following statement is correct regarding state public service commission

1. The chairman of a State Public Service Commission (on ceasing to hold office) is not eligible for appointment as the chairman or a member of UPSC or as the chairman of any other State Public Service Commission, but for any other employment under the Government of India or a state.
2. A member of a State Public Service Commission (on ceasing to hold office) is eligible for appointment as the chairman or a member of the UPSC, or as the chairman of that State Public Service Commission or any other State Public Service Commission, but not for any other employment under the Government of India or a state.
3. The Constitution states that the chairman or any other member of a State Public Service Commission is deemed to be guilty of misbehaviour if he (a) is concerned or interested in any contract or agreement made by the Government of India or the government of a state, or (b) participates in any way in the profit of such contract or agreement or in any benefit.

Which among the following is the function of State Public Service Commission

1. It conducts examinations for appointments in the services of the state. All matters relating to methods of recruitment to civil services and for civil posts. The principles to be followed in making appointments to civil services and posts and in making promotions and transfers from one service to another.
2. The suitability of candidates for appointments to civil services and posts; for to another; and transfers from one service to another; and appointments by transfer or deputation. The concerned departments make recommendations for promotions and request the State Public Service Commission to ratify them.
3. Any claim for reimbursement of legal expenses incurred by a civil servant in defending legal proceedings instituted against him in respect of acts done in the execution of his official duties. Any claim for the award of a pension in respect of injuries sustained by a person while serving under the government of the state and any question as to the amount of any such award.

71. Who among the following held that if the government fails to consult the State Public Service Commission in state matters, the aggrieved public servant has no remedy in a court?

72. The additional functions relating to the services of the state can be conferred on State Public Service Commission by whom?

73. To whom the State Public Service Commission presents annually report on its performance?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The State Public Service Commission is not consulted on the following matters: a) While making reservations of appointments or posts in favour of any backward class of citizens. b) While taking into consideration the claims of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in making appointments to services and posts.
2. The governor can exclude posts, services and matters from the purview of the State Public Service Commission. The Constitution states that the governor, in respect to the state services and posts may make regulations specifying the matters in which, it shall not be necessary for State Public Service Commission to be consulted.

75. The regulations made by the governor in which State Public Service Commission can’t be consulted shall be laid before each House of the State legislature for at least?

Which among the following statement is correct regarding role of State Public Service Commission

1. The Constitution visualizes the State Public Service Commission to be the ‘watchdog of merit system’ in the state. It is not concerned with the recruitment to the state services and advises the government, when consulted, on promotion and disciplinary matters.
2. It is concerned with the classification of services, pay and service conditions, cadre management, training and so on. These matters are handled by the Attorney General or the Supreme Court Judges. Therefore, the State Public Service Commission is not only a central recruiting agency in the state.
3. The role of State Public Service Commission is not only limited, but also recommendations made by it are only of advisory nature and hence, not binding on the government. It is up to the state government to accept or reject that advice.

77. Emergence of which in 1964 affected the role of State Public Service Commission in disciplinary matters?

78. The State Public Service Commission is consulted by whom while framing rules for appointment to judiciary service of the state other than the posts of district judges?

79. Which organisation recruits all Group “B” posts in the various Ministries/Departments of the Govt. of India?

80. Which Article of the Constitution provides that the powers of superintendence, direction and control of elections to parliament, state legislatures shall be vested in the election commission?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The Election Commission is a permanent and an independent body established by the Constitution of India. Thus, the Election Commission is an all India body in the sense that it is common to both the Central government and the state governments.
2. It must be noted here that the election commission is also concerned with the elections to panchayats and municipalities in the states. For this, the Constitution of India provides for a separate power to Election Commission.

82. Which article of Constitution of India provides for an independent office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India?

83. Who said that the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) shall be the most important Officer under the Constitution of India?

. Which among the following objectives of Financial Administration is incorrect

1. Management of the finances of public household. Implementation of projects and programmes. Provision for public goods and social services. Growth, Employment and Price Stability.
2. Capital formation and Productive deployment of national funds. Facilitating smooth flow of parliamentary processes and Achieving equity and equality.

Match the following Four Distinct Phases of Financial Administrative History of India with its respective period

1. Period I       –   1. Democratisation and Decentralisation
2. Period II      –   2. Creation of structure and concretisation
3. Period III     –   3. Development of systems and Procedures.
4. Period IV     –   4. Development orientation

Which among the following principles of financial administration is incorrect

1. The principle of primacy of public interest, public choice and public policy. The principle of political direction, control and correspondence.
2. The principle of distinguishing of organisation and management. The principle of stability, balance, simplicity and rigidity.
3. The principle of conduct, discipline, regularity, public trust and accountability

87. The Budgetary cycle consists of how many phases?

88. In India, budget preparation formally begins on the receipt of a circular from which Ministry?

89. When the first modern budget was presented in India?

90. Which among the following is not Indirect Tax?

91. Which among the following goods comes under GST (Goods and Services Tax)?