Listen to one national and one regional news bulletin broadcast by All India Radio daily for one week.

Question:

Listen to one national and one regional news bulletin broadcast by All IndiaRadio daily for one week. make a list of news items related to government policies or decisions by classifying these into the following categories :6.

News items that relate only to the Central Government.
Ness items that relate only to your or any other State Government.
News items about the relationship between the Central and State Governments.

Answer:

While listening to the news, keep in mind the Union List, State List and Concurrent List. Classify the news according to these lists.

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Consider the following statements:

Match List I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists :

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A few subjects in various Lists of the Indian Constitution are given here.

The distinguishing feature of a federal government is :

Here are three reactions to the language policy followed in India. Give an argument and an example to support any of these positions.

Fill in the blanks : Since the United States is a _____ type of federation, all the constituent States have equal powers and States are vis-à-vis the federal government.

Point out one feature in the practice of federalism in India that is similar to and one feature that is different from that of Belgium.

Identify and shade three federal countries (other than India) on a blank outline political map of the world

Locate the following States on a blank outline political map of India: Manipur, Sikkim, Chhattisgarh, and Goa.

State any two differences between the local government before and after the Constitutional amendment in 1992.

What is the main difference between a federal form of government and a unitary one? Explain with an example.

Find out about the local government in the village or town you live in. If you live in a village, find out the names of the following: your panch or ward member, your sarpanch, your panchayat samiti, the chairperson of your zilla parishad.

What do these newspaper clippings have to say about efforts of decentralization in India?

Prime Minister runs the country. The Chief Minister runs the state. Logically, then the Chairperson of Zilla Parishad should run the district. Why does the D.M. or Collector administer the district?

Take the example of your own state or any other state what was affected by linguistic reorganization.

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Are you suggesting that regionalism is good for our democracy? Are you serious?

Here are two cartoons showing the relationship between Centre and State. Should the state go to the Centre with a begging bowl?

Why Hindi? Why not Bangla or Telugu?

Identify any three states which have been carved out of a bigger state.8.

Can you identify three state names in 1947 that have changed later?7.

Has your village or town remained under the same state since independence? If not, what was the name of the earlier state?6.

Suppose the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa have different policies on how their state police should respond to the naxalites.

Suppose the Government of Sikkim plans to introduce new textbooks in its schools.

Pokhran, the place where India conducted its nuclear tests, lies in Rajasthan.

If agriculture and commerce are state subjects, why do we have ministers of agriculture and commerce in the Union cabinet?

Isn’t that strange? Did our Constitution makers not know about federalism? Or did they wish to avoid talking about it?

Some Nepalese citizens were discussing the proposals on the adoption of federalism in their new Constitution. This is what some of them said:

If federalism works only in big countries, why did Belgium adopt it?

Though only 25 of the world’s 192 countries have a federal political system, their citizens make up 40 per cent of the world’s population.

I am confused. What do we call the Indian government? Is it Union, Federal or Central?

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More NCERT Questions

Consider the following statements:

Match List I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists :

Examine the following pairs that give the level of government in India and the powers of the government at that level to make laws on the subjects mentioned against each.

A few subjects in various Lists of the Indian Constitution are given here.

The distinguishing feature of a federal government is :

Here are three reactions to the language policy followed in India. Give an argument and an example to support any of these positions.

Fill in the blanks : Since the United States is a ___________________ type of federation, all the constituent States have equal powers and States are ______________ vis-à-vis the federal government.

Point out one feature in the practice of federalism in India that is similar to and one feature that is different from that of Belgium.

Identify and shade three federal countries (other than India) on a blank outline political map of the world

Locate the following States on a blank outline political map of India: Manipur, Sikkim, Chhattisgarh, and Goa.

State any two differences between the local government before and after the Constitutional amendment in 1992.

What is the main difference between a federal form of government and a unitary one? Explain with an example.

Find out about the local government in the village or town you live in. If you live in a village, find out the names of the following: your panch or ward member, your sarpanch, your panchayat samiti, the chairperson of your zilla parishad.

What do these newspaper clippings have to say about efforts of decentralization in India?

Prime Minister runs the country. The Chief Minister runs the state. Logically, then the Chairperson of Zilla Parishad should run the district. Why does the D.M. or Collector administer the district?

Take the example of your own state or any other state what was affected by linguistic reorganization.

Scheduled languages of India

Are you suggesting that regionalism is good for our democracy? Are you serious?

Here are two cartoons showing the relationship between Centre and State. Should the state go to the Centre with a begging bowl?

Why Hindi? Why not Bangla or Telugu?

Identify any three states which have been carved out of a bigger state.8.

Can you identify three state names in 1947 that have changed later?7.

Has your village or town remained under the same state since independence? If not, what was the name of the earlier state?6.

Suppose the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa have different policies on how their state police should respond to the naxalites.

Suppose the Government of Sikkim plans to introduce new textbooks in its schools.

Pokhran, the place where India conducted its nuclear tests, lies in Rajasthan.

If agriculture and commerce are state subjects, why do we have ministers of agriculture and commerce in the Union cabinet?

Isn’t that strange? Did our Constitution makers not know about federalism? Or did they wish to avoid talking about it?

Some Nepalese citizens were discussing the proposals on the adoption of federalism in their new Constitution. This is what some of them said:

If federalism works only in big countries, why did Belgium adopt it?

Though only 25 of the world’s 192 countries have a federal political system, their citizens make up 40 per cent of the world’s population.

I am confused. What do we call the Indian government? Is it Union, Federal or Central?

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