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UPSC Prelims · General Studies

Polity

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Union territories, Scheduled and Tribal Areas, special States, classes and language

Scheduled Areas, Fifth Schedule and PESA

Practise 8 PYQs

Concepts to cover

  1. Scheduled Areas declared by Presidential order; Governor's report (Fifth Schedule paras 3, 6)
  2. Tribes Advisory Council (Fifth Schedule para 4)
  3. Governor's regulations on land transfer and money-lending (Fifth Schedule para 5)
  4. Union directions on Scheduled Areas (Art. 339)
  5. PESA 1996: Gram Sabha powers in Scheduled Areas
  6. Fifth versus Sixth Schedule purposes
Where to study

The Constitution of India

  • Art. 244
  • Fifth Schedule
  • Art. 339
  • Fifth Schedule para 4
  • Fifth Schedule para 5
  • Sixth Schedule

Indian Polity · M. Laxmikanth

  • ch. 37 Scheduled and Tribal Areas
  • ch. 34 Panchayati Raj

The Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996

  • s. 3 Extension of Part IX of the Constitution
  • s. 4 Exceptions and modifications to Part IX of the Constitution (Gram Sabha powers)

Ministry of Panchayati Raj: home page

  • home, PESA
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