Public Policy, Rights Issues & Official Languages Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act was passed in which year?

Question 2

Under Article 345, a state legislature may by law adopt what as the official language or languages of that state?

Question 3

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was passed in which year?

Question 4

Article 14 guarantees both 'equality before the law' and the 'equal protection of the laws'. From where is each of these two expressions drawn?

Question 5

The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, which frees bonded labourers and cancels their debts, gives effect to which Fundamental Right?

Question 6

Which Directive Principle, added by the 42nd Amendment, asks the State to take steps to secure the participation of workers in the management of industry?

Question 7

Which law of 2007 makes it a legal obligation for children and heirs to maintain their parents and senior citizens, through maintenance tribunals?

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About Public Policy, Rights Issues & Official Languages

This quiz is meant for students preparing for the IAS examination and other competitive tests, and for anyone who wants to understand how the Constitution guides government policy, protects the rights of citizens and weaker sections, and settles the question of language. It covers three connected areas. The first is public policy: the Directive Principles of State Policy in Part IV, how the courts have balanced them against the Fundamental Rights, and the big rights-based laws that have grown out of them. The second is rights issues: the Fundamental Rights in depth, the landmark judgments on privacy, equality and personal liberty, and the special provisions and protective laws for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, backward classes, women, children, persons with disabilities, transgender persons and senior citizens. The third is official languages: Part XVII of the Constitution, the Eighth Schedule, the classical languages, and the special provisions in the Fifth and Sixth Schedules and in Article 371. When complete it will have one hundred and twenty carefully checked questions, arranged in five packs of twenty-four.

Every question has four options, and the correct option can be in any position. After each question there is a detailed explanation of more than five lines, in simple Indian English that a school student can follow. The explanation gives the relevant Article, amendment, case or Act, the important numbers such as the twenty-two languages of the Eighth Schedule and the fifty per cent ceiling on reservations, and the points that examiners like to test.

A few questions in the first pack carry a photograph of the Constitution, Parliament or the Supreme Court, only to set the scene; the picture never gives away the answer. Every fact has been checked against the text of the Constitution and the relevant Acts and judgments, and against standard reference books on Indian polity.