EDU TERIA BPSC Mains Foundation I Indian Polity Printed Notes | English Medium

EDU TERIA BPSC Mains Foundation I Indian Polity Printed Notes | English Medium

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Table of Contents

• Analysis of the Indian Constitution
  • Constitution making process, form, concept, features, critical aspect
  • Constitutionalism, Constitutional morality
  • Dynamism and Vibrancy of the Indian Constitution

• Preamble of the Indian Constitution
  • Preamble, Objectives and Importance of the Indian Constitution
  • Current relevance of the Preamble

• Fundamental Rights in the Indian Constitution in the Indian Constitution
  • Classification and importance of fundamental rights in the Indian Constitution
  • Article 15, Article 16, Article 19, Article 21 and Article 32

• Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution
  • Importance of Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution
  • An examination of the concept of priority and complementarity between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles.
  • Implementation of Directive Principles of State Policy in Bihar
  • Uniform Civil Code and its holistic analysis
  • Testing the practicality of fundamental duties

• Parliamentary System
  • Merits and Demerits of the Parliamentary System
  • Reasons for the acceptance of the parliamentary system
  • Differences between the Indian and British models
  • Comparative Study (Parliamentary and Presidential)

• Indian Parliament
  • Formation and structure of Parliament
  • Actual position of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha
  • Relevance of Rajya Sabha
  • Parliamentary Privileges and Sovereignty of Parliament/Parliamentary Committee
  • Role and importance of the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha

• Federal System in India
  • Systems of Governance
  • Union-State Relations (Legislative, Financial and Administrative Relations)
  • Cooperative federalism or competitive federalism, fiscal federalism
  • Inter-State Councils and Regional Councils

• President of India
  • Election, functions and powers
  • Constitutional, substantive, discretionary power of the President
  • Ordinances by the President, veto power
  • President’s rule and related parties
  • President of India reviews the situation

• Prime Minister and the Federal Council of Ministers
  • Powers and functions of the Prime Minister
  • An examination of the constitutional relationship between the President and the Prime Minister in India

• Emergency Provisions in the Indian Constitution
  • Emergency provision in the Indian constitution

• Governor
• Amendment of Indian Constitution
• Judiciary and Related Issues
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Collegium System
  • Basic Structure of the Constitution
  • Judicial Review
  • Judicial Activism
  • Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
  • Problems and reforms of the judiciary
  • TRIBUNALS
  • Lok Adalats

• Factors influencing Indian and Bihar politics
  • Indian Context
    • Criminalisation of Politics
    • Role of regional parties

  • Bihar Context
    • Coalition Government
    • Pressure Groups
    • Regionalism and separatism
    • Role of caste and religion in politics

• Election Commission
  • Special Intensive Revision (SIR)

• Indian Election Process
  • Electoral Reforms
  • One Nation One Election (ONOE)

• Local Self Government
• Bihar based questions and miscellaneous
  • Citizenship
  • The Right to Information
  • Influence of Gandhian ideology on Indian politics
  • Anti-defection law
  • Delimitation commission
  • Law Commission
  • E-governance