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Ninth Schedule introduction in Constitution

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Question

The Ninth Schedule was introduced in the Constitution of India during the prime ministership of

Options

a

Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer
b

Lal Bahadur Shastri

c

Indira Gandhi

d

Morarji Desai

Explanation

The Ninth Schedule was introduced by the First Amendment to the Constitution of India in 1951 during the Prime Ministership of Jawaharlal Nehru. This amendment added the Ninth Schedule to protect certain state and central laws from being challenged on the grounds that they violated fundamental rights. It was enacted to safeguard land reform laws and laws related to social and economic reforms from judicial scrutiny. The First Amendment was a significant amendment that addressed immediate post-independence concerns about land redistribution and agrarian reform. > The Ninth Schedule was added through the FIRST AMENDMENT under PM Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951. Answer: (a).

Question details

Year

2019

Paper

GS Paper 1

Question

Q47

Subject

Polity

Sub-topic

Constitutional amendments

Type

Factual single

Difficulty

Medium

Nature

Static

Source hint

NCERT Polity; Constitution History

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