GK Indian Constitution for Competitive Exams

Article 360 of the Indian Constitution empowers the President to invoke financial emergency. Grounds of declaration – If the President is satisfied that a situation has arisen due to which the financial stability or credit of India or any part of its territory is threatened.

The 1957 Balwant Rai Mehta Committee was the benchmark in the country's history of democratic decentralization, which gave birth to the very basics of the Panchayati Raj system in India.

Bharat Ratna and Padma Awards are titled under Article 18(1) of 'the Constitution of India. 2. Padma Awards, which were instituted in the year 1954, were suspended only once.

If the President resigns, the Vice-President informs the Speaker of Lok Sabha about the President's resignation. In draft article 45, 1948, it was mentioned the President may hand over his resignation to the Vice-President and the Speaker of Lok Sabha. It was accepted in 1950 without amendment as article 56.

Dayanand Bandodkar was elected as the first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu. Goa became India's 25^th state on 30^th May 1987.

On 16 May 1975, Sikkim became the 22nd state of the Indian Union, and the monarchy was abolished. To enable the incorporation of the new state, the Indian Parliament amended the Indian Constitution.

The Drafting Committee consisted of 7 members. It was set up on August 29, 1947. The committee was responsible for preparing the draft of the Indian Constitution.

The chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India was Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. It consisted of eight members.

The Republic is governed in terms of the Constitution of India which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November, 1949 and came into force on 26th January, 1950. The Constitution provides for a Parliamentary form of government which is federal in structure with certain unitary features.

Dr Rajendra Prasad was the permanent President of the Constituent Assembly.