QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 16 May 2017

Solution: c.

Charter Act of 1833

• It terminated the trading rights of the Company and rendered it merely an administrative agency of the Crown in India.
• For the first time, the Governor General’s Government was known as the Government of India and his Council as the Indian Council.

First INC session

• The Congress passed a resolution asking for constitutional reforms and for the admission of a considerable proportion of elected members to the Legislative Councils and the right to discuss the budget.
• Delivering his Presidential Address at the first session in Kolkata, W.C. Banerjee described the Congress as the National Assembly of India.

PIB: President’s lecture on the topic ‘History of Parliamentary Democracy in India’;

Solution: b.

• The first resolution under the rules was moved on 25 February 1910 by Gopal Krishna Gokhale recommending prohibition of indentured labour for Natal in South Africa.
• Satyamurti, a lawyer and outstanding orator, entered the Madras Legislative Council in 1923 and his fame as a legislator spread all over the country. He excelled himself in the question hour and became a master of the art of interpellation. He was known as the ‘terror of the question hour’. His brilliant and effective speeches earned him the name “Trumpet Voice”. Shri Satyamurti was member of the Central Legislative Assembly from 1935 to 1939 where his success as a legislator led Gandhiji to remark that if there had been ten Satyamurtis in our legislatures, the British would have quit long ago.
• Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru’s ties with the British made him valuable as a mediator and Sir Sapru mediated between Gandhi and the Viceroy Lord Irwin, helping to forge the Gandhi-Irwin Pact. Sir Sapru also mediated between Gandhi, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and the British over the issue of separate electorates which was settled by the Poona Pact. Sir Sapru was chosen as the representative of Indian Liberals at the Round Table Conferences of 1931-1933.

PIB: President’s lecture on the topic ‘History of Parliamentary Democracy in India’;

Solution: c.

• The Indian Independence Act of 1947 enacted by the British Parliament declared the Constituent Assembly to be a fully sovereign body and the Central Legislative Assembly and the Council of States ceased to exist from 14 August 1947.
• Immediately before the commencement of the Constitution, the Constituent Assembly became the Provisional Parliament of India and functioned as such until the first General Elections based on adult franchise were held in 1952.

PIB: President’s lecture on the topic ‘History of Parliamentary Democracy in India’;

Solution: b.

IE: “With the exception of Bhutan, which has no diplomatic ties with China, every other South Asian country has signed into OBOR.”

TH: Off the road: “Each of India’s neighbours, with the exception of Bhutan, has signed up for the B&RI, expecting to see billions of dollars in loans for projects including roads, rail, gas pipelines, oil pipelines, electricity and telecommunications connectivity.”

Solution: a.

Sendai is located in Japan. The Sendai Framework was preceded by the Hyogo Framework for Action (Hyogo, Japan).

UNISDR;

Improvisation: PIB;