Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Polity and Constitution

Consider the following proposals of the Swaran Singh Committee:

  1. Parliament should be able to prescribe penalties for refusal or failure to observe Fundamental Duties.
  2. A law imposing such a penalty should not be questioned for infringing Fundamental Rights or being repugnant to another constitutional provision.
  3. Payment of taxes should be included as a Fundamental Duty.
  4. All these proposals were incorporated into Part IVA by the Forty-second Amendment.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. 1 and 4 only
  2. 1, 2 and 3 only
  3. 2, 3 and 4 only
  4. 1, 2, 3 and 4
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