A. Answer the following questions orally.
1. Name the components of the union executive.
2. Who is India's head of state?
3. What do we call the group of people that elects the president?
4. What is the normal term of office of the president? Can the president be elected?
5. Give three examples of high officials appointed by the president.
6. Who heads the central council of ministers?
7. Name the first president, the first vice-president and the first prime minister of India.
8. Who heads the central civil service?
than 20 words.
Answers
Answer:
1.The Union executive consists of the President, the Vice-President, and the Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister as the head to aid and advise the President.
2.The current head of state of India is Ram Nath Kovind, elected in 2017 after being nominated by BJP, the party run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
3.When people cast their vote, they are actually voting for a group of people called electors. The number of electors each state gets is equal to its total number of Senators and Representatives in Congress. A total of 538 electors form the Electoral College. Each elector casts one vote following the general election.
4.Time of election. Article 56(1) of the constitution provides that the president shall hold office for a term of five years from the date on which he enters upon his office.
5.Governors of States.
The Chief Justice and Judges of High Courts.
The Chief Justice and the Judges of the Supreme Court.
The Vice-President.
6.the Prime Minister
8.During the British raj, Warren Hastings laid the foundation of civil service and Charles Cornwallis reformed, modernised, and rationalised it. Hence, Charles Cornwallis is known as 'the Father of civil service in India'. Cornwallis introduced two divisions of the Indian Civil service—covenanted and uncovenanted.