Indian Constitution 26

വോട്ട് ഓൺ അക്കൗണ്ട്, കേരള ബജറ്റ്, ക്വസ്റ്റിൻ അവർ, ശൂന്യവേള, അവിശ്വാസ പ്രമേയം, വിശ്വാസപ്രമേയം, പാർലമെൻറ് കമ്മറ്റികൾ എന്നിവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ

• Article dealing with Vote on Account

                  Article 116

• As per Vote on account, the amount of money for the expenditure of government till the bill is passed is taken from

                  Consolidated fund of India

• Vote on Account is valid for

                  Two months (1/6th of the amount is generally granting)

• First Kerala budget was presented by

                  C Achutha Menon (7th June 1957)

• Who is holding the record of presenting maximum number of budgets

                  K M Mani (13 Budgets)

• Which university started KM Mani centre for budget studies

                  CUSAT (Cochin university)

• KM Mani centre for budget studies inagurated by

                  Hamid Ansari (2013 February 17)

• Who is holding the record of longest budget speech

                  Thomas Issac (2 Hr 56 Min) (second Oommen Chandi)

• Who is holding the record of shortest budget speech

                  EK Nayanar (in 1987, Six minutes)

• Part of budget which consist all the revenues and deposits of government account

                  Public account

• First budget of the Republic of India was presented by

                  John Mathai (28th February 1950)

• First finance minister to present a budget in Lok Sabha

                  CD Deshmukh (1952)

• First budget in India was presented by

                  James Wilson (1860 under Lord Canning)

• Father of Indian budget

                  P C Mahalanobis

• Only woman to present a budget in Lok Sabha

                  Indira Gandhi

• First Prime minister to present a budget during the finance ministership

                  Jawaharlal Nehru

• Which budget was called as Black budget

                  1973-74 (Due to budget deficit)

• Question hour is

                  First hour of every parliamentary sitting

• Questions in parliament which requires Oral answers is called

                  Starred questions

• Number of Oral questions allowed per day

                  20 (One member can ask only one question per day)

• Questions in parliament which requires written answers is called

                  Unstarred questions

• Short notice questions can be answered within

                  Ten days

• Question hour in Rajya sabha starting at

                  12 pm (2014 onwards)

• An Indian innovation to parliamentary system in which a member to raise matters without any prior notice

                  Zero hour

• Timing of Zero hour in Parliament

                  12 to 1 pm (In Rajya sabha 11am to 12 pm from 2014 onwards)

• No confidence motion can be introduced only in

                  Lok Sabha

• No confidence motion can be introduced by

                  Opposition Party

• No confidence motion can be introduced against

                  Council of ministers

• Minimum number of support needed to present No confidence motion in Lok Sabha

                  50

• No confidence motion can be introduced by

                  Opposition Party

• First person to present No confidence motion

                  JB Kripalani (1963 against Jawaharlal Nehru)

• PM who faced most number of No confidence motion

                  Indira Gandhi

• First PM who faced after failing in No confidence motion

                  V P Singh

• Confidence motion introduced by

                  Prime Minister

• Majority needed to pass No confidence motion

                  Simple majority

• An Indian innovation to parliamentary system to call the attention of a minister to a matter of urgent public interest by a member

                  Calling attention motion

• Counter part of calling attention in Rajya sabha

                  Motion of papers

• Motion moved by a member when a minister committed a breach of privilages of the House

                  Privilage motion

• Motion introduced in Lok Sabha to draw the attention to a matter of urgent public importance

                  Adjournment motion

• Motion discussing the speech of President address in Parliament

                  Motion of Thanks

• Parliamentary committees which is permanent in nature is called

                  Standing committees

• Parliamentary committees which is constituted for specific purpose is called

                  Adhoc committees

• No of members in Public Accounts Committee (PAC)

                  22 (15 from Lok Sabha and 7 from Rajya Sabha)

• Chairman of Public Accounts Committee is from

                  Lok Sabha and Opposition party (Appointed by Speaker)

• Present Chairman of Public Accounts Committee

                  Mallikarjun Kharge

• Term of office of a member of Public Accounts Committee and Estimate committee is

                  One year

• Committee which examines the audit reports of CAG

                  Public Accounts Committee

• Public Accounts Committee submits its report to

                  Speaker of Lok Sabha

• Who is called as the friend, philosopher and guide of Public Accounts Committee

                  CAG

• Who is considered as the eye and year of Public Accounts Committee

                  CAG

• Which is called as the postmortam Committee

                  PAC

• Quarum of PAC is

                  Four members

• Which Committee is responsible for preventing the over expense of public funds

                  PAC

• Largest parliamentary Committee

                  Estimate Committee

• First Estimate Committee in the Independent India was formed in

                  1950 (Recommended by John Mathai)

• No of members in Estimate Committee

                  30

• Committee which consists of only Lok Sabha members

                  Estimate Committee

• Chairman of Estimate Committee is from

                  Ruling Party (Appointed by Speaker)

• Which committee is responsible for scrutinize the budget estimates

                  Estimate committee

• Committee on public undertaking was created in

                  1964 (Recommended by Krishna Menon Committee)

• No of members in Committee on public undertaking

                  22 members (15 from Lok Sabha 7 from Rajya Sabha)

• Committee which examines the affairs of the public undertakings

                  Committee on public undertakings

• Chairman of Committee on public undertaking is from

                  Lok Sabha (Appointed by the Speaker)
                                                                                           (To be Continued...)