Test: Human Rights in India- 1 - Humanities/Arts MCQ

Article 29 give the religious and linguistic minorities’ right to establish and manage educational institutions of their own. The minorities have been given the unrestricted rights to promote and preserve their own culture. Indeed, India is a country of diverse cultural groups and she is keen to preserve her cultural diversity.

Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December every year. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global enunciation of human rights and one of the first major achievements of the new United Nations.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. In 1966, the General Assembly adopted the two detailed Covenants, which complete the International Bill of Human Rights. In 1976, after the Covenants had been ratified by a sufficient number of individual nations, the Bill has become an international law, to be followed by all. The Declaration consists of thirty articles. They are classified into i) civil and political rights ii) economic, social and cultural rights.

The Planning Commission was a non-constitutional and non-statutory body and was set up to formulate five years plan for social and economic development in India. Its main function is to assess the resource of the country, formulate plans to increase economic development which included laying down of five-year plan. It is now replaced with NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog in 2015 by the Government of India.