[Mission 2023] STATIC QUIZ, 28 April 2023 – Polity

Solution: c)

• The Estimates Committee (India)is a committee of selected members of parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India (the Lok Sabha), for the purpose of scrutinising the functioning of government ministries and departments in terms of expenditure and utilisation of funds.
• It also suggests alternative policies in order to bring about efficiency and economy in administration.
• It also examines whether the finances are laid out within the limits of the policy implied in the estimates and also to suggest the form in which the estimates shall be presented to Parliament. This committee along with the Public Accounts committee (PAC) and Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU) are the three financial standing committees of the Parliament of India.

The committee consists of thirty members, all elected from Lok Sabha. There are no members from Rajya Sabha.

Solution: c)

The President is elected by the elected members of the Parliament and the legislative assemblies of states and union territories of Delhi and Puducherry (nominated members do not participate in the election of the President) in accordance with the system of proportional representation, by means of single transferable vote.

Statement 3 is incorrect.

Solution: b)

Adjournment                                                                               

1.It only terminates a sitting and not a session of the House.

2. It is done by presiding officer of the House.
3. It does not affect the bills or any other business pending before the House and the same can be

resumed when the House meets again.

Prorogation

1. It not only terminates a sitting but also a session of the House.
2. It is done by the president of India.
3. It also does not affect the bills or any other business pending before the House. However, all pending notices (other than those for introducing bills) lapse on prorogation and fresh notices have to be given for the next session. In Britain, prorogation brings to an end all bills or any other business pending before the House.

Solution: b)

The Speaker of Lok Sabha does not leave the office soon after dissolution of the house. He continues to be in the office till the newly formed assembly takes its first meeting and elects the new Speaker.

Committees like the Business Advisory Committee, the General Purposes Committee and the Rules Committee work directly under her Chairmanship.

Solution: d)

The Citizenship Act, 1955 provides for the acquisition and loss of citizenship after the commencement of the Constitution. The act identifies the persons who became citizens of India at its commencement (i.e., on January 26, 1950).