Choose the correct alternative: The Chairman of a Joint Public Service Commission for two or more States is appointed by –
Correct Answer:
(A) The President of India
According to Article 316(1), the Chairman and other members of Public Service Commission shall be appointed in case of Union Commission or Joint Commission by the President of India and in case of State Commission by Governor of State.
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The Chairman of the State Public Service Commission is appointed by?
Correct Answer:
(C) the Governor of the State
Parallel to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) at the Centre, there is a State Public Service Commission (SPSC) in a State. The same set of articles (i.e., 315 to 323 in part XIV) of the Constitution also deals with the composition appointment and removal of members, power and functions and independence of a SPSC. Therefore, the Chairman and members of the SPSC are appointed by the governor and they can be removed only by the President.
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The functions of the State Public Service Commission of Uttar Pradesh can be extended by
Correct Answer:
(D) Uttar Pradesh State Legislature
The functions of the State Public Service Commission of Uttar Pradesh can be extended by Uttar Pradesh State Legislature. Article-321. Power to extend functions of Public Service Commissions: An Act made by Parliament or, as the case may be, the Legislature of a State may provide for the exercise of additional functions by the Union Public Service Commission or the State Public Service Commission as respects the services of the Union or the State and also as respects the services of any local authority or other body corporate constituted by law or of any public institution.
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In which of the following matters the State Public Service Commission is not consulted?
Correct Answer:
(D) On making transfers of Civil Servants.
Under Article 320, the function the State Public Service Commission does not contain transfer of civil servants. Therefore, the State Public Service Commission is not consulted on the matter of transferring Civil Servants.
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The Union Public Service Commission can be entrusted with the functions of a State Public Service Commission with the approval of –
Correct Answer:
(D) President of India
Article 315(4) lays down that the Public Service Commission for the Union, if requested so to do by the Governor of a State, may, with the approval of the President, agree to serve all or any of the needs of the State.
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Which Article of the Constitution has provision for removal of a member of Public Service Commission?
Correct Answer:
(C) 317
According to Article 317 of the Constitution, the Chairman or any other member of a Public Service Commission shall only be removed from his office by order of the President on the ground of misconduct after the Supreme Court, on reference being made to it by the President, has, an inquiry held in accordance with the procedure prescribed in that behalf under Article 145, reported that the Chairman or such other member, as the case may be, ought on any such ground to be removed.
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Which of the following is correct about Union Public Service Commission of India?
Correct Answer:
(B) It has nothing to do with State Public Service Commission.
According to the Indian Constitution, the Union Public Service Commission and the Public Service Commissions of States are free from each other for their work. Under Article 315, the provision has been made for Public Service Commissions in the States. Two or more than two States may agree that there shall be one Public Service Commission for that group of the States.
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Which one of the following is correct? Union Public Service Commission is a–
Correct Answer:
(D) Constitutional Organization
Union Public Service Commission is a Constitutional organization as provided in Article 315 of the Indian Constitution which enumerates that there shall be a Public Service Commission for the Union and a Public Service Commission for each State.
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The Union Public Service Commission submits its annual report to the –
Correct Answer:
(B) President
Article 323 of the Constitution of India provides that it shall be the duty of the Union Public Service Commission to give the report to the President about the Commission’s work every year and the President shall cause a copy thereof together with a memorandum explaining, as respects the case if any, where the advice of the commission was not accepted, the reason for such non acceptance to be laid before each House of Parliament.
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The first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is-
Correct Answer:
(B) Roze Bethew
Mrs. Roze Millian Bethew (Kharbuli) was the first woman Chairman of Union Public Service Commission who served in this post from 1992 to 1996.