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

Question 1

Which writ is issued by a court to enquire into the legality of a person's claim to a public office, and to oust him if the claim is bad?

Question 2

Article 351 contains a directive to the Union to promote the spread and development of which language?

Question 3

In which case did the Supreme Court first hold that, in a conflict between a Fundamental Right and a Directive Principle, the Fundamental Right would prevail?

Question 4

The system of reserved constituencies with a joint electorate for the Depressed Classes, in place of separate electorates, came out of which agreement?

Question 5

Which amendment added Article 15(5), enabling the State to provide for reservation in admissions to private educational institutions, whether aided or unaided, except minority institutions?

Question 6

Which department, set up in 1975 under the Ministry of Home Affairs, is responsible for carrying out the constitutional and legal provisions on the official language of the Union?

Question 7

From which country's constitution did India borrow the idea of the Directive Principles of State Policy?

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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.