Constitution Of India - Civil Rights GK

Article 148 of lndian constitution
deals with CAG
Article 112 
budget Article108 — 
Ioint Sitting of Parliament.
Article 148 
Comptroller and Auditor General, Article 324 
Election Commission. Article 368

Amendment ofConstitution by Parliament.
Article 19(1) (a) is related to ‘Freedom of Speech and expression’.
Article 24  Prohibits employment of children below the age of 14 years in any factory. mine or other
hazardous activities.

Article 243 A deals with Grama Sabha.
Article 280 of the constitution deals with Finance Commission. lt is a Constitutional body appointed by the President every five years.

Article 3 of the Indian Constitution
deals with the formation of new
states
Article 39 (dl — Equal pay for equal work for men and women.
Article 47 - Prohibition ofliquor

Article 48 —()rganisation of agriculture and animal husbandry
Article 48A of the constitution is based on \Vild Life Act of the country. At present, Right to property is a legal right (Article 300A}
B. Shankaranand was Chairman of the first ]PC. By the 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1926, a list of 10 Fundamental Duties were inserted in to the Constitution. Certiorari: It means ‘to be certified’ or ‘to be informed’. It is issued by the
Supreme Court or High Courts to a lower court or a tribunal to transfer
a case, pending before the latter, to the higher court for review. Chairman of 14th Finance
Commission (2015-2020) - Y.V. Reddy.
Chairman of the first Finance
Commission - K.C. Neyogi (1951)
Chairman of Union Public Service
Commission - Deepak Gupta
Chairperson of Kerala Wo1nen’s
Commission - K.C. Rosakkutty
Chairperson of National
Commission for V\’omen — Lalilha Kumaramangalam
Cover page of the Indian constitution was designed by - Nandalal Bose
Cyber laws are listed i11 the concurrent list.
Dowry Prohibition Act, was passed by the parliament in 1961.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee
Duration ofzero hour in Lok Sabha is one hour.
Ex-othcio chairman of NITI Aayog - Prime Minister
Father of Lok Sabha’ - G.V. Mavlankar
Father of Rajya Sabha’ - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
First CAG of India - V. Narahari Rao
First Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha - M.A. Ayyankar
First Finance Minister to present a budget in the Lok Sabha is C.D. Deshmukh in 1952.
First }'PC was formed in 198? to investigate Bofors Scandal.
First Voter of Independent India - Shyam Saran Negi
First woman Advocate in India - Cornelia Sorabji
First woman to become Central Chief Information Commissioner - Deepak Sandhu
First women to be nominated to the Lok Sabha - Majorio Godfrey
First women to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha - Rukmini Devi Arundale
Fist women Speaker of Lok Sabha (15th LokSabha) - Meera Kumar
Forty second constitutional
Amendment Act of 19?6 is known as Mini - Constitution
Fundamental Duties are modelled on the erstwhile constitution of the USSR. It was inserted into
the Indian Constitution on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee.
Iayanthi Patnaik is the first Chairperson of NCW
Iustice is the word which appears first in the Preamble of Indian Constitution.
Lame-duck-session is the last session of the existing Lok Sabha after a new Lok Sabha has been elected.
Longest serving Chief ElectionCommissioner of India - 
I(.V.I(.Sundaram Longest Serving Defence Ministerof India - A.K. AntonyMazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan was founded in Rajastan. It was founded by Aruna Roy along with Shankar Singh and Nikhil Dey.
Morarji Desai is the finance minister who presented maximum number of budgets (10 budgets) in the
parliament.
My Presidential Years’ was written by R. Venkata Raman
National Education day is observed on the birthday of Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad
National Flag is adopted on - ]l.lly 22, 194'?’
National Song is adopted on - Ianuary 24, 1950
National Voters day - ]anuary25.
NHRC is established on 12th October 1993 under the provisions of the Protection of Human Rights Act 1993.
One more fundamental Duty was added by the 86th Constitutional Amendment Act 2002. Thus now
there are ll fundamental duties. 
Organization of Village Panchayat is mentioned in Article 40.
P.C. Mahalanobis is called as the father of Indian Budget.
Part IV (Articles 36 to 51) of the Constitution deals with the
Directive Principle ofstate policy Preamble is called as Heart and Soul
of the constitution - Thakur Das Bhargav
Preamble is called as Identity Card - N.A. Palkivala
Preamble is called as Sou] and key
to the Constitution - Iawaharlal Nehru
Present chairman of Public Accounts Committee - K.V. ‘Thomas
Present Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights - Stuti Narain Kacker.
Present Chairperson of the State
Human Rights Commission - Iustice ].B. Koshy
Present Chief Election Commissioner of India — SyedNasim Ahmed Zaidi
Present Kerala State Election
Commissioner - V. Bhaskaran
Promotion of International Peace and Security is entitled in Article 51.
Railway budget was separated from the General Budget on the recommendation of the Acworth
Committee Report (1921) in 1924.
Rajya Sabha is constituted under Article 80 of the constitution
Right to constitutional remedies has be en described by Dr Ambedkar as the ‘Heart and Soul‘ of Constitution.
Right to Education Act 2009 came into force on lst April 2010 RAPE}
Right to Education became a Fundamental Right by the 86th
Constitutional Amendment Act of 2002 (9?-rd Bill)
Right to Life and Personnel Liberty {Article 21)
S.K. Dhar was the chairman of the Linguistic Provinces Commission appointed by the Govt. of India in 1943.
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was passed by the parliament
in 1989 and it came into force on the 30th Ianuary 1990.

Second women speaker of Lok Sabha - Sun1itraMa]1ajan (16thLok Sabha)
' The story of My Life - Morarjee Desai
‘Travelling Through Conflict‘ - written by Hamid Anzari
Telangana is the 29th State of India.
It came into being on 2nd Iune 2014.The preamble has been amendedonly once
Govt. of India Act, 1935 is known as the ‘Blue print of Indian
Constitution’ - The Article which deals with the
universal adult franchies - Article 326
The Chairman of the PAC is appointed by the speaker and he is invariably from Lok Sabha and
from the opposition party.
The Chief Iustice of the Supreme Court gets a monthly salary of one lakh (Salary of Iudge, Supreme
Court - 90,0001-)
The concept of lolcpal was suggested by Asokee Kumar Sen
The Constitution of India was adopted by the Constituent
Assembly on 26th November 1949 The death anniversary of B.R.
Ambedkar is celebrated in India as ‘Mahaparinirvan Diwas’ (6th
December)
The demand for creating Ombudsman in India was initially put forwarded by K.M. Munshi (1960)
The election of the Speaker and
Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha is listed in the Article 93.
The first budget of free India was presented by R.K. Shanmukham
Chetty on 26th November 194