TNPSC INDIAN CONSTITUTION Hints

Planning Commission - 1950
Planning Commission was setup in the recommendation of planning Advisory Board (1946)
Planning advisory board chairman K.C.Neogi
Planning commission is neither a constitutional body not a statutory body.
Planning commission chairman PM
Planning commission's full time functional head Deputy Chairman
Planning commission strength 4 to 7 expert members
NDC 1952 (First Five year plan recommended)
Sarkaria Commission recommended that NDC should be given constitutional status
Regulating Act 1773 laid the foundation of a central administration
The Zonal councils have been established by states Reorganization Act.
Constitutional bodies - Finance Commission, Election Commission
Planning Commission, NDC, Zonal councils, UGC are not constitutional bodies.
District Collector - Hastings
Local Government - Ribbon
Divisional Commissioner - Bentinck
NDC - PM, all union cabinet minister, CM of all state, Administrators of Union territories and members of planning commission.
Finance Commission Act 280. Chairman with 4 Members.
52^nd Amendment Act 1985 - deals art 101, 102, 190 & 191 added (anti Defection law)
District Administration stands for Administration within a District.
The office of a District Collector was created by warren Hasting
Ashok Mehta Committee recommendation

1. Creation of two tier system

2. Reservation for SC/STS

3. Compulsory taxation for panchayats.

4. Open participation of political parties.

District judges are appointed by Governor of state.
Money bill can be introduced in the state legislature only on the recommendation of Governor.
Balwanthray Committee was a committee on Community development Programme.
First Panchayat raj states Rajasthan & Andhra
The Office of a District Collector was created in India in 1972.
Ashok Mehta Committee is a committee on Panchyat Raj Institution.
In UP & West Bengal District Collector is known as District Magistrate.
7^th Amendment provides for the appointment of the same person as Governor for two or more states.
Panchayat raj is a system of Rural Local self Govt.
Balwantray Committee - 1957 - report 1958
Ashok Mehta Committee - 1977 - report 1978
Balwantry Mehta Committee 3 tier system 1. Gram Panchayat 2. Panchayat Saniti 3. zila Parishad.

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