Practice Test: Indian Polity - 11 - BPSC (Bihar) MCQ

the real operating level below the Secretary is the Joint Secretary/Deputy secretary is in charge of a wing and supervises the work of a number of Under Secretaries.

a lot of powers of the Government are obligated to the Joint Secretary/Deputy Secretary who can take final decisions on many important matters.

All the above

None of the above

Under Secretary is the lowest level officer in the Secretariat hierarchy.

he provides a link between the office and the officers above him.

he does not have to do any original work requiring thinking but has only to ensure that papers are submitted in time.

he is placed in charge of a number of sections each in charge of a section officer.

Assistant Secretary/Section officer

Assistant

Upper Division Clerk

All the above

to connect the incoming papers with the previous files.

to point out the various laws, rules, regulations, practices etc., connected with the case in question.

they have also to present the precedents in which similar questions have been examined in the past.

at least the Assistants are supposed to analyse the cases and suggest the alternatives.

the section officer allocates work to the clerical staff within the section

he is supposed to supervise the work of all his subordinates working in the section.

After the Assistant has suggested alternatives, the section officer has to analyse their pros and cons.

the Section Officer has to analyse their pros and cons.

Secretaries/Additional Secretaries/Joint Secretaries are drawn mainly from the Indian Administrative Service.

Deputy Secretaries/Under Secretaries are drawn from the cadre of State Civil Service.

Recent trends are that a number of officers from other technical/functional service are also posted in secretariat.

some secretariat posts are reserved for selection grade of State Secretariat Service on the lines of Central Secretariat Service.

unlike the officers, the secretariat staff mostly comes from the services recruited for the secretariat.

the recruitment to secretarial staff is done on the basis of an open recruitment examination conducted by Junior service Commission.

the recruitment, promotion and service conditions etc., are governed by relevant recruitment rules.

all the above.

to assist and advise the Minister in the formulations of the Government policies.

for this purpose together facts, analyse them, formulate alternatives and examine the consequences of alternatives.

after getting policy decision from the Minister to covert it into very detailed guidelines for field agencies so that they have no discretion left.

to monitor the implementation of the policies and evaluate their impact during implementation.

the tenures in State Secretariat are fairly stable, each officer staying in his place for three to four years.

the tenure system in most states operates in name only, the officers being shifted on whims and fancies of politicians.

most of the secretariat positions are occupied by genaralist officers.

very often the officers themselves sabotage the tenure system in their attempt to move to attractive posts.

there is a general complaint that the secretariat has been concentrating most of the powers in itself.

over a period of time the state secretariat have developed such expertise which enables them to dispose of all business expeditiously.

the generalists working in the secretariat are not allowed enough time to grasp the problems of their jobs.

Secretariat procedures are slow and time consuming resulting in delayed decision-making.

In 1773 in the Province of Bengal

In 1799 at the Centre

In 1833 in Bombay

In 1919 in all the Provinces.

the Governor acting in his discretion

the Minister in department of Personnel

the Chief Minister

the State Cabinet

the Chief Secretary is primus inter pares among the secretaries to the State Government.

in most of the state, the Chief Secretary is the senior most civil servant.

in U.P. he used to be junior to President Board of Revenue and in Punjab, junior in Financial Commission

when due to instabilities or political unacceptable as Chief Secretary, one of the senior most officers appointed.

the Chief secretary is the main adviser of the Chief Minister in all Administrative matters.

the Chief Secretary is the Secretary of the State Cabinet.

the Chief Secretary is the head of the entire civil service in the state.

the chief secretary directly watches the implementation of the government programmes by the Directorates.

the Chief Secretary gets the precis of each case prepared by the Secretary of the department

he obtains the approval of the Chief Minister for including the agenda items in the cabinet meetings

he circulates the precis for all the items included in the agenda for any meeting of the cabinet.

he witness the implementations of all the cabinet decisions by the field agencies.

the Chief Secretary is the Chairman of a number of Secretaries' committees which are formal vehicles of co-ordination.

in case of doubt, individual secretaries may always seek the advice of Chief Secretary who is well aware of general policies.

in case of disagreement between the two secretaries the Chief Secretary often informally resolves the problem.

all the above.

Earlier the post of Chief Secretory was exempt from the operation of the tenure rules.

Usually the Chief Secretary was either allowed to retire or was sent to the Centre as secretary.

Later the tenure of the Chief Secretary was fixed as five years.

Now the Chief secretaries have very short tenures which are terminated without notice.

Karori

Mansabdar

Kotwal

Subedar

1909 - Minto - Morley Reforms.

1772 - Assumption of Powers of Collection of Land Revenue by the East India Company.

1919 - Montague - Chemsford Reform establishes diarchy in the states.

1935 - Govt of India Act, establishing provincial autonomy in the administration of Provinces.

Revenue functions

Law and order functions

Development functions

All the above

Assessment of demand for land revenue due on the land holders and giving them demand notices.

Collection of the land revenue with the help of the revenue machinery in the district

Decision about the title of land in case of disputes over titles

Maintenance of land records showing title, possession and other details about the entire revenue land.

Balwantrai Mehta

Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru

Chiman Bhai Patel

S.K. Dey

There was an irresistitible demand from the people for the creation of local self Government institutions in rural area.

The Community Development Programme, connected with much fanfare, was not making much headway.

It was felt that the participation of the people in the C.D. programme was minimal.

Need was felt of enquiring into the causes of the slow progress of community development programmes.

The Community Development Programme can not succeed unless the community exercises power through chosen representatives.

Statutory elective local bodies should be established as early as possible with necessary power, authority and resources.

A three tier system of Panchayati Raj institutions was envisaged by the Committee.

These changes should be brought about by a constitutional amendment.

Article 40 of the Constitution makes it mandatory on the part of the states to establish Panchayati Raj.

The state Governments have enacted legislation to establish Panchayati Raj institutions within their territories.

The statutes provide for the manner of election, raising of finances, conduct of business etc in respect of the Panchayati Raj institutions.

The State Governments have been empowered to frame rules in pursuance of the provisions of their respective statutes.