Jammu And Kashmir And Ladakh GK MCQ Question and Answer | State Gk MCQ

Sheikh Abdullah continued as the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Two members of the erstwhile Cabinet from the Jammu province, Sardar Budh Singh and Pir Mohammad Khan were dropped. Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq stepped down from his Cabinet duties to serve as the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly.

5^th Amendment Act, 1963 came into existence on 14^th October, 1963. By this Amendment Act, Clauses (c) and (d) of Section 50 (4) have been omitted. In Section 50 (6), 8 members instead of 6 are inserted which are nominated by the Governor of the State from different areas like Science, Art, Literature, Cooperative Movement, etc. to the Legislative Council of Jammu and Kashmir.

With the seventh amendment to the constitution in 1956, the concept of Union territory is brought in to administer areas which are very small in area or governed by international agreements or politically not evolved for locally elected governance.

12^th Amendment Act, 1975 came in October, 1975. This Act amended composition of Legislative Assembly and Provision relating to Pakistan occupied Kashmir. In Section 48 of Clause (a), the words twenty five seats (reserved for Pakistan occupied Kashmir) have been replaced by twenty four seats.

The legislative branch of government is a unicameral legislative assembly, whose tenure is five years. The legislative assembly may make laws for any of the matters in the State List of the Constitution of India except "public order" and "police", which will remain the preserve of the central Government of India. The Lieutenant Governor also has the power to promulgate ordinances which have the same force as the acts of the legislative assembly.

On 1^st May 1951 Karan Singh then Head of state of Jammu and Kashmir issued a proclamation directing the formation of constituent assembly. The assembly was to be constituted of elected representatives of the people of the state. For purposes of this election the state was divided into constituencies containing population of 40,000 or as near thereto as possible and each electing one member.

The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council consists of 30 Councillors in which 26 are directly elected from the territorial constituencies and 4 are nominated by the Governor from principle religious minorities and women folk of the district.

The quorum to constitute a Meeting of the Legislative Assembly shall be ten members or one-tenth of the total members of the Legislative.

An MLA of the Legislative Assembly of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir is not less than 25 years of age.