UNION / CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SET 63

UNION / CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SET 63

1. The Speaker can ask a member of the House to stop speaking and let another member speak. This phenomenon is known as?    Yielding the floor
 

2. The sovereign power under the Indian Constitution rests with the?        Parliament
 

3. Parliament is an instrument of ______Justice?    Legal
 

4. Under which Article of the Constitution does the Central Government gives Plan assistance to the State Government?    275
 

5. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of Union Territories of India in the increasing order of their area?    Lakshadweep – Chandigarh – Pondicherry – Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 

6. What is Value Added Tax?    A simple, transparent, easy to pay tax imposed on the consumers
 

7. The VAT adopted by 21 States replaced which of the following taxes?    State Sales Tax
 

8. Which one of the following is not a Central Government Tax?    Land Tax
 

9. Who is the President of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research?    Prime Minister
 

10. Consider the following statements: 

The Rajya Sabha alone has the power to declare that it would be in national interest for the Parliament to legislate with respect to a matter in the State List.