Indian Constitution 25

പാർലമെൻറ്ൻറെ ചില സവിശേഷതകൾ, ബജറ്റ് എന്നിവയെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ

• Situation in which no political party has an absolute majority after the election

                    Hung Parliament

• Official of a political party whose responsibility is to ensure discipline in a legislature

                    Whip

• If a legilative member of a political party disobey the Whip issued, he will disqualified under

                    Anti Defection Law

• The procedure of debating over a proposed piece of legislation in order to delay or prevent the decision being made on that

                    Filibuster

• Process of manipulating the boundaries of an electral constituency in favor of the ruling party

                    Gerry Mandering

• Process of terminating the sitting of Parliament is called 

                    Adjournment

• Adjournment is done by

                    Presiding officer of the house

• Process of terminating the sitting of the house for an indefinite period is called 

                    Adjournment sine die

• Process of terminating the session of Parliament is called 

                    Prorogation

• Prorogation is done by

                    The President

• In case of Prorogation

                    Does not affect pending bills, all notices lapses

• Process of ending the life of a house by the President is called 

                    Dissoluton

• Dissolution is applicable only for

                    Lok Sabha

• All businesses including bills, committees will lapses in case of

                    Dissoluton

• Period between the prorogation and reassembly is called as 

                    Recess

• Members of the existing Lok Sabha who could not get re-elected to the new Lok Sabha

                   Lame ducks

• Article dealing with Budget

                    Article 112

• The word Budget s derived from

                    French word Bougette means a small bag

• The term used for indicating Budget in constitution

                    Annual Financial Statement

• Estimate of all anticipated receipts and expenditure of the coming year is called

                    Budget

• Financial year in India

                    From 1st April to 31st March

• Budget laid before the Parliament in the name of

                    President

• Railway Budget separated from General budget in

                    1924

• Railway Budget separated from General budget by the recommendation of

                    Acworth Committee

• First Budget of free India was presented by

                    RK Shanmugham Chetty

• First Budget of free India was presented on

                    26th November 1947

• Maximum number of Budgets presented after Morarji Desai by

                    P Chidambaram (9 budgets)

• Maximum number of Budgets on a raw presented by

                    CD Deshmugh (7 budgets)

• Decision to merge Railway budget with general Budget was taken on

                    21 September 2016

• Single Budget after the merging of railway budget was presented on

                    1st February 2017

• First finance minister to present Budget on February 1

                    Arun Jaitly

• The word Interim Budget was first used by

                    RK Shanmukham Chetty

• First finance minister to present an Interim Budget was

                    CD Deshmukh

• Annual budget of states undergoing presidential election will be presented at

                    Parliament

• Which part of the Budget is dealing with taxation policy

                    Second part

• The voting on demands for grants is the exclusive privilage of

                    Lok Sabha

• Number of demands in General Budget

                    109 (103 for civil and 6 for defence)

• Number of demands in Railway Budget

                    32

• Types of Budgets are

                    Line Item budget, performance budget, programme budget and zero based budget

• Which are the heads consists in Budget

                    Consolidated fund, Contingency Fund, Public account of India

• Article dealing with Consolidated fund

                    Article 266

• Article dealing with Contingency fund

                    Article 267

• Article dealing with Public Account of India

                    Article 266 (2)

• All the revenues collected, loans raised and the income generated by Govt of India kept under

                    Consolidated fund

• Fund reserved for emergencies and unexpected economic crises

                    Contingency fund
                                                                                                  (To be Continued...)