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UPSC Prelims Polity, Panchayati Raj and PESA 1996

Panchayati Raj and PESA 1996 The 73rd amendment Act 1992 had made constitutional provisions for the three tier Panchayats all over the country. However, this act is not applicable to Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram and certain other areas including scheduled and tribal areas. These other areas include scheduled areas and the tribal areas in the states  hill area of Manipur for which a district council exists  Darjeeling district of West Bengal for which Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council exists. At the same time, Article 243M (4) (b) of the part IX made the provisions that parliament may by law, extend the provisions of this Part to the scheduled areas and the tribal areas. Even before the Parliament could enact legislation, some states such as Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan extended the Part IX to their scheduled areas. This means that it became an unconstitutional act on the part of these states. This irked the tribal le...

What is Political Science ?

Political science focuses on the theory and practice of government and politics at the local, state, national, and international levels. We are dedicated to developing understandings of institutions, practices, and relations that constitute public life and modes of inquiry that promote citizenship. Some of the major subfields are described below. Political Theory Political theory is concerned mainly with the foundations of political community and institutions. It focuses on human nature and the moral purposes of the political association. To clarify these concepts, political theorists draw on enduring political writings from ancient Greece to the present and on various writings by moral philosophers. The political theory also focuses on empirical research in the way political institutions function in practice. Here political theorists subject beliefs about political life found in important political writings to re-examination in the light of ongoing human behavior. In either...

Political Science MCQS ( PDF FILES )

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