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
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
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
