APSC Prelims 2020 GS Paper – Suggest Topics for Polity & Int. Organisation Section

APSC Prelims 2020 GS Paper – Suggest Topics for Polity Section

Members of Parliament

  • Members in Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha from Assam, NE states
  • State-wise members nos distribution – Maximum & Minimum in LS & RS, Power of MPs
  • Total LS members across states, Lok Sabha constituency/ RS constituency – criteria, Delimitation Commission
  • Assam State assembly size, constituency
  • Legislative Council – States with LC, Legislative Assembly to Legislative Council size ratio

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Parliamentary powers

  • Chairman of RS, Vice President, Protem Speaker, L.o.Opp, Speaker/Dy.speaker of LS – Powers, Provisions & Resignation
  • Speaker of Lok Sabha– conducts business in the house – decides whether a bill is a money bill or not- maintain discipline and decorum in the house – punish unruly member – answerable to the house – permit moving of motion
  • various motions – motion of no confidence, motion of adjournment, motion of censure and calling attention notice- decides on the agenda for discussion presides over the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament.

Parliamentary Terms

  • Adjournment, Adjournment sine die, Calling Attention, Casting Vote,
  • Crossing the floor, Demand for Grants, Expunction, Motion,
  • Motion of Thanks, Prorogation, Question Hour, Question of Privilege, Whips, Qourum
  • Parliamentary Terms, Adjournment, Adjournment sine die, Calling Attention, Casting Vote,
  • Crossing the floor, Demand for Grants, Expunction, Motion, Motion of Thanks, Prorogation, Question Hour, Question of Privilege, Whips
  • Terms & Procedures of state legislative assembly

Indian Polity – Federal structure

  • NITI Aayog, Interstate Council, North East Council, Finance Commission
  • Various Committees – Standing & Ad-hoc – Theirs Memberships – Houses represented – Appointment authority

Judiciary

  • Judges/CJI of SC and HC – Appointment and Resignation, Impeachment
  • Powers & Responsibility of SC/HC, Article related to SC/HC, Important Articles
  • Judicial procedures, Dispute resolution mechanism, Jurisdictions – types of SC/HC
  • National Legal Services Authority of India (NALSA)
  • Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008, LokAdalat
  • Epistolary Jurisdiction, appelete, advisory, Curative petition, Judicial review
  • Jurisdictions – types of SC/HC, Original Jurisdictions of SC, Powers of SC/HC

Constitution

  • Constitution of India – Important Articles – FR,DPSP, FD
  • Constitutional remedy – Writ Petitions – HC, SC
  • Judiciary – Executive- Legislative –independence
  • Panchyat Raj in India & Assam
  • Fifth Schedule – administration and control of scheduled areas and scheduled tribes in other states.,
  • Sixth Schedule – Tribal areas in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram
  • PESA act, Tribal Councils
  • AFSPA, Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir 1951, 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord
  • Special cases for various states – Article 371 A Nagaland, 371 B Assam, 371 C Manipur, 371– D Andhra Pradesh, 371 – E Sikkim, 371 G Mizoram, 371 H Arunachal Pradesh, 371 – I Goa
  • In Part XXI of the Constitution: Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions

Executive branch

  • President, Union Council of Ministers

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International & Regional Organisation

  • SAARC, ASEAN, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO),
  • European Commission, European Union
  • African Union (AU), Arab League (AL)
  • Commonwealth of Nations
  • Commonwealth of Independent States – 10 post-Soviet republics
  • Organs of UN
  • World Bank & it’s organs
  • United Nations Commission on Human Rights
  • Military alliance – NATO, Warsaw pact
  • International military intervention against ISIL