Polity Questions and Answers

Polity Questions and Answers

Indian Polity and governance form an important part of the civil services exam syllabus. Questions based on the same are asked in the two written examinations for UPSC recruitment. In this article, BYJU’S brings to you a compiled list of Polity questions important from prelims and mains perspective.

The answers to the questions below have been given by IAS experts, and candidates can get brief and crisp answers to these questions based on important topics. These topics have been picked from UPSC Syllabus, especially based on the General Studies II paper of the mains examination.

Constitution, political systems and patterns, fundamental rights, parliaments, etc. constitute a part of the polity syllabus for the two phases of the exam and questions given below will help candidates get upfront and unambiguous answers to all polity questions for exam preparation.

D.P. Kohli is the first CBI director who held office from 1st April 1963 to 31st May 1968. Shri Kohli was a visionary who saw in the Special...
CBI is not a statutory body, it derives its powers from the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946. It was established in 1941 as the...
Shri Subodh Kumar Jaiswal is the present head of CBI. The CBI is headed by a Director, an IPS officer with the rank of Director General of...
Till 2014, the CBI Director was appointed on the basis of the DSPE Act, 1946. In 2014, the Lokpal Act provided a committee for the appointment of...
Director of CBI has been provided security of 2 year tenure, by the CVC Act, 2003. The CBI is headed by a Director, an IPS officer with the rank...
Delhi Special Police Establishment Act was passed in 1946. CBI derives its powers from the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946. It was...
The word "Lokpal" is derived from the Sanskrit word "Loka" meaning people and "Pala" meaning protector or caretaker. Together it means "protector...
Role of CIC: Power to order inquiry if there are reasonable grounds. Receive and inquire into a complaint from any person: Who has not received...
Chief Information Commissioner(CIC) is appointed by the President on the recommendation of a committee consisting of the Prime Minister as...
CIC refers to Chief Information Commissioner and IC refers to other Information Commissioners. The commissioners are appointed by the President...
Chief Information Commissioner is the full form of CIC. He/she heads Central Information Commission. Chief Information Commissioner(CIC) is...
CIC is a statutory body. It was established by the Central Government in 2005, under the provisions of the Right to Information Act (2005). It is...
The Chief Information Commissioner or any Information Commissioner shall be removed from his office only by order of the President on the ground...
The following are the objectives of National Human Rights Commission. e-Government: Providing e-infrastructure for delivery of e-services...
No, NHRC does not have the power of prosecution. It is an investigative and recommendatory body.Upon the completion of an inquiry, the Commission...
NHRC can investigate any complaints related to human rights violations in India either suo-moto or after receiving a petition. In the latest...
Yes, NHRC is a statutory body. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India was established on 12 October 1993. It is established under...
The Cyrus Cylinder is now recognized as the world’s first charter of human rights. The Persian king Cyrus the Great wrote the charter in...
The National Human Rights Commission, India has been set up by an Act of Parliament under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 for the...
National Human Rights Commission shall have the following powers while inquiring into complaints: Summoning and enforcing the attendance of...