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Tamil Nadu Board 10th Standard Social Science - Civics Unit 3: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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• 1 Mark Questions: Choose the correct answer, Fill in the blanks, Identify the correct statement, Match the following 
• 2 Mark Questions: Answer briefly 
• 3, 4, and 5 Mark Questions: Answer in detail

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Unit 3: State Government

 

I. Choose the correct answer.

1. The Governor of the State is appointed by the
a) Prime Minister 
b) Chief Minister 
c) President 
d) Chief Justice
Answer Key: 
c) President

2. The Speaker of a State is a _____.
a) Head of State 
b) Head of government 
c) President’s agent 
d) None of these
Answer Key: 
d) None of these

3. Which among the following is not one of the powers of the Governor?
a) Legislative 
b) Executive 
c) Judicial 
d) Diplomatic
Answer Key: 
d) Diplomatic

4. Who can nominate one representative of the Anglo-Indian Community to the State Legislative Assembly? 
a) The President 
b) The Governor
c) The Chief Minister 
d) The Speaker of State Legislature 
Answer Key: 
b) The Governor 

5. The Governor does not appoint _____. 
a) Chief Minister 
b) Chairman of the State Public Service Commission 
c) Advocate General of the State 
d) Judges of the High Court 
Answer Key: 
d) Judges of the High Court 

6. The State Council of Ministers is headed by _____. 
a) The Chief Minster 
b) The Governor 
c) The Speaker 
d) The Prime Minister 
Answer Key: 
a) The Chief Minster 

7. The minimum age for the membership of the Legislative Council is ____. 
a) 25 years 
b) 21 years 
c) 30 years 
d) 35 years 
Answer Key: 
c) 30 years 

8. Which one of the following States does not possess a bicameral legislature? 
a) Andhra Pradesh 
b) Telangana 
c) Tamil Nadu 
d) Uttar Pradesh 
Answer Key: 
c) Tamil Nadu 

9. The High Courts in India were first started at _____. 
a) Calcutta, Bombay, Madras 
b) Delhi and Calcutta 
c) Delhi, Calcutta, Madras 
d) Culcutta, Madras, Delhi 
Answer Key: 
a) Calcutta, Bombay, Madras 

10. Which of the following States have a common High Court? 
a) Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh 
b) Kerala and Telangana 
c) Punjab and Haryana 
d) Maharashtra and Gujarat 
Answer Key: 
c) Punjab and Haryana

I. Fill in the blanks.

1. Governor of the state government surrenders his resignation to _____. 
2. Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) are elected by the _____. 
3. _____ acts as the chancellor of the universities in the state.
4. The Chairman and Members of the State Public Service Commission can be removed only by the _____. 
Answer Key: 
1. The President 
2. People 
3. The Governor 
4. President

III. Match the following.

1	Governor	Head of the Government
2	Chief Minister	Head of the State
3	Council of Ministers	Tribunals
4	MLC	Responsible for the Assembly
5	Armed forces	Cannot vote for grants

 Answer Key:

1	Governor	Head of the State
2	Chief Minister	Head of the Government
3	Council of Ministers	Responsible for the Assembly
4	MLC	cannot vote for grants
5	Armed forces	Tribunals

 

IV. Answer the brief questions.  

1. What is the importance of the Governor of a state?
Answer Key:
1. The Governor is the Constitutional head of the state.
2. The administration of the state is carried on in the name of the Governor.
3. He has all executive powers.
4. Each bill passed by the State Legislature becomes law only after his signature.

2. What are the qualifications for the appointment of Governor?
Answer Key:
1. He should be a citizen of India.
2. He must have completed 35 years of age.
3. He should not be a member of the Legislative Assembly of any State or member of Parliament.
4. He should not hold any other profitable occupation.

3. What is the original jurisdiction of the High Court?
Answer Key:
1. The High Courts of presidency towns - Bombay, Calcutta and Madras have both original and appellate jurisdictions while other High Courts have mostly appellate authorities.
2. The original jurisdiction includes admirality, probate, matrimonial and contempt of court.
3. The presidency High Courts have original jurisdiction in which the amount involved is more than Rs. 2000/- and in criminal cases which are committed to them by the presidency magistrate.

4. What do you understand by the “Appellate Jurisdiction” of the High Court?
Answer Key:
1. All High Courts entertain appeals in civil and criminal cases from their subordinate courts as well as on their own.
2. They have no jurisdiction over the tribunals of armed forces.

V. Answer in detail.

1. Describe the Legislative Powers of the Governor.
Answer Key:

Legislative Powers of the Governor:
The Governor is an integral part of the State Legislature. But The Governor is not a member of the legislature. He enjoys various powers.
1. The Governor can summon, prorogue and dissolve the State Legislative Assembly.
2. He can address the State Legislature at the commencement of the first session after each general election and the first session of each year.
3. He can send messages to the houses of legislature about the pending bills.
4. When the posts of Speaker and Deputy Speaker are vacant, he can appoint any member of the Legislative Assembly to preside over its proceedings.
5. He can nominate one member from the Anglo - Indian community to the State Legislative Assembly.
6. He can nominate 1/6 of the members to the State Legislative Council from amongst prominent and distinguished individuals from the society with special knowledge of arts, literature, science, co-operative movement and social service.
7. Every bill passed by the legislature will become a law only after his signature. He can give assent, withhold or return the bill for reconsideration.
8. Under Article 213, he can promulgate an ordinances when the legislature is not in session. But they have to be approved by the legislature within six months. He can withdraw it at anytime.
9. He has to lay the annual reports of the State Finance Commission, the Public Service Commission and the Comptroller and Auditor General relating to the accounts of the State, before the legislature.

2. What are the powers and functions of the Chief Minister? 

Answer Key:
The Chief Minister is the real executive authority in the State.

Relating to the Council of Ministers:
1. The Chief Minister recommends the persons who can be appointed as ministers by Governor.
2. He allocates portfolios among the ministers.
3. He shuffles and reshuffles his ministry.
4. Presides over the meetings of the cabinet.
5. He guides, directs, controls and coordinates the activities of his ministers.

Relating to the Governor:
He advises the Governor in in relation to the appointment of the following officials.
1. Advocate General of the State.
2. State Election Commissioner.
3. Chairman and Members of the State Public Service Commission.
4. Chairman and Members of the State Planning Commission.
5. Chairman and Members of the State Finance Commission.

Relating to Legislature:
1. He advises the Governor with regard to summoning and proroguing the sessions of the state legislature.
2. He announces government policies on the floor of the House.
3. He can introduce bills in the Legislative Assembly.
4. He can recommend dissolution of the Legislative Assembly to the Governor.

3. Critically examine the functions and powers of the Council of Ministers. 
Answer Key:

The functions and powers of the Council of Ministers:
1. It formulates and decides the policies of the State and implements them effectively.
2. It decides the legislative programmes and sponsors all important bills.
3. It controls the financial policy and decides tax structure for the public welfare of the state.
4. It makes important appointments of the heads for departments.
5. It discusses and takes efforts on the disputes with other states.
6. It frames proposals for incurring expenditure out of state reserves.
7. It decides all bills, money bills and others to be introduced in the Assembly.
8. Each minister controls and supervises and the coordinates department concerned.
9. The Annual Budget is finalised by the Council of Ministers.

VI. Project and activity.   

1. Prepare a flow chart showing the State Government’s Administrative setup.
Answer Key:

 

2. Students to list out the names of the Tamil Nadu Governor, Chief Minister, Ministers and the Governors and Chief Ministers of the neighbouring States.
Answer Key:

STATES	CHIEF MINSTERS	GOVERNORS
Andhra Pradesh	Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy	ESL Narasimhan
Arunachal Pradesh	Pema Khandu	B.D Mishra
Assam	SarbanandaSonawal	JagdishMuki
Bihar	Nithish Kumar	LaljiTandon
Chattisgarh	Dr. BhupeshBaghel	Anandi Ben Patel
Goa	Pramod Sawant	MirdulaSinha
Gujarat	VijaybhaiR.Rupani	O.P.Kohli
Haryana	Manoharlal Khattar	Sathyadev Narayan Arya
Himachal Pradesh	Jai Ram Thakur	Acharya Devtrat
Jammu and Kashmir	Mehboobha Mufti	Satyapal Malik
Jharkhand	Raghubha Das	Draupadi Murma
Karnataka	H.D.Kumarasami	Vajubhaivala
Kerala	Pinarayi Vijayam	P. Sathasivam
Madhya Pradesh	Shivrajsingh Chauhan	Anandi Ben Patel
Maharashtra	Devendra Fadnavis	Vidyasagar Rao
Manipur	Biren Singh	Nejma Heptulla
Meghalaya	Conrad Sangma	Tathagata Roy
Mizoram	Lalthanhawla	Kummanam Rajasekaran
Nagaland	Neiphiu Rio	P.B.Acharya
Odhisha	Naveen Patnaik	Ganeshilal
Punjab	Amrind Singh	V.P. Singh Bandure
Rajasthan	Vasundara Raje	Kalyan Singh
Sikkim	P.S. Golay	Ganga Prasad
Tamil Nadu	Edappadi Palanisami	Banwarilal Purohit
Telengana	K.Chandra Sekar Rao	ESL Narasimhan
Tripura	Biplab Kumar Deb	Kaptan Singh Solanki
Uttar Pradesh	Yogi Adithyanath	Ram Naik
Uttarkhand	Trivendrasingh Rawal	Baby rani mourya
West Bengal	Mamata Banerjee	Keshrinath Tripathi