Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Polity and Constitution

Consider the following statements:

  1. The Dhar Commission recommended reorganisation primarily on the basis of administrative convenience rather than language.
  2. The JVP Committee formally rejected language as the basis for reorganising States.
  3. The Fazl Ali Commission broadly accepted language as a basis of reorganisation but rejected the theory of “one language–one State”.
  4. The States Reorganisation Act and the Seventh Constitutional Amendment ultimately created sixteen States and three Union Territories in 1956.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

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