{"id":2256,"date":"2024-04-26T04:19:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T22:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2024-05-01T05:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:09:45","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-117","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The Rajya Sabha has no power either to reject or to amend a Money Bill.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Rajya Sabha cannot vote on the Demands for Grants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Rajya Sabha\u00a0cannot discuss the Annual Financial Statement<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1 and 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Answer:<\/strong> (b) 1 and 2 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      The Constitutional Position of the Rajya Sabha as compared with the Lok Sabha can be studied from three angles:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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      • Equal Status with Lok Sabha<\/strong>\n
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        • Introduction and passage of\u00a0ordinary bills, Constitutional Amendment bills<\/strong>, and\u00a0financial bills<\/strong>\u00a0involving expenditure from the\u00a0Consolidated Fund of India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Election\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0impeachment\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0President<\/strong>.\u00a0Election\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0removal\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0Vice-President<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Making\u00a0recommendations to the President for the removal of Chief Justice and judges of Supreme Court and high courts, chief election commissioner and comptroller and auditor general.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Approval of\u00a0ordinances\u00a0<\/strong>issued by the\u00a0President<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0proclamation\u00a0<\/strong>of all three types of\u00a0emergencies\u00a0<\/strong>by the President.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Selection of ministers<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0consideration<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0reports\u00a0<\/strong>of the constitutional bodies like\u00a0Finance Commission, Union Public Service Commission, comptroller and auditor general<\/strong>, etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Enlargement\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0jurisdiction\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0<\/strong>and the\u00a0Union Public Service Commission<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Unequal Status with Lok Sabha<\/strong>\n
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          • A\u00a0Money Bill can be introduced only in the Lok Sabha\u00a0<\/strong>and not in the Rajya Sabha.\u00a0Rajya Sabha cannot amend or reject a Money Bill<\/strong>. It should return the bill to the Lok Sabha within\u00a014 days, either with recommendations or without recommendations<\/strong>.\n
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            • The Lok Sabha can either accept or reject all or any of the recommendations of the Rajya Sabha.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • In both cases, the money bill is deemed to have been passed by the two Houses.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • A\u00a0financial bill, not containing solely the matters of Article 110, also can be introduced only in the Lok Sabha\u00a0<\/strong>and not in the Rajya Sabha. But, concerning its passage, both the Houses have\u00a0equal powers.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • The\u00a0final power to decide whether a particular bill is a Money Bill<\/strong>\u00a0is vested in the\u00a0Speaker of the Lok Sabha.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • The\u00a0Speaker of Lok Sabha presides over the joint sitting of both the Houses<\/strong>.\u00a0The Lok Sabha with greater numbers wins the battle in a joint sitting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • A\u00a0resolution\u00a0<\/strong>for the\u00a0discontinuance\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0national emergency<\/strong>\u00a0can be passed only by the\u00a0Lok Sabha<\/strong>\u00a0and not by the Rajya Sabha.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • The Rajya Sabha\u00a0cannot remove the council of ministers by passing a no-confidence motion<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Special Powers of Rajya Sabha\u00a0<\/strong>\n
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              • It can\u00a0authorize the Parliament to make a law on a subject enumerated in the State List<\/strong>\u00a0(Article\u00a0249<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • It can authorize the Parliament to\u00a0create new All-India Services\u00a0<\/strong>common to both the Centre and states (Article\u00a0312<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • It alone can\u00a0initiate\u00a0<\/strong>a move for the\u00a0removal of the vice-president.\u00a0<\/strong>(Article\u00a067<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • If a\u00a0proclamation is issued by the President for imposing a national emergency or president\u2019s rule or financial emergency at a time when the Lok Sabha has been dissolved or the dissolution of the Lok Sabha takes place within the period allowed for its approval<\/strong>, then the proclamation can remain effective even if it is approved by the Rajya Sabha alone (Articles\u00a0352, 356 and 360<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                Which of the statements given above is\/are correct? Answer: (b) 1 and 2 only The Constitutional Position of the Rajya Sabha as compared with the Lok Sabha can be studied from three angles:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[39],"years":[58],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-polity","years-58"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":39,"label":"Indian Polity"}],"years":[{"value":58,"label":"2015"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Indian Polity","slug":"indian-polity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":188,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}