### How to prepare Indian Polity & Constitution? Polity means Indian Constitution and allied topics. You’ll encounter these MCQs in UPSC exams, Staff Selection and State service Class1, Class2, subordinate services, ACIO, EPFO and certain central PSU jobs. Polity can be classified into two parts: Static theory vs. Current Affairs. Recommended book:- --- Indian Polity by M.Laxmikanth. How to read ??? 1. President, VP then Governor 2. PM, Cabinet then CM 3. Parliament (Budget, Committee) then High court 4. UPSC then State PSC 5. 7th Sch. Union then 7th Sch. State, Concurrent -> This type of reading / revision habit ensures UPSC cannot confuse you in tricky MCQs by interchanging state’s provisions with union provision and vice versa. *** After this:- 1. FR, FD, DPSP. Provisions applicable to Aliens, NRIs, PIOs 2. Amendment, 5th & 6th schedule areas, 370 3. Finance commission => Planning Commission =>NDC 4. Bodies: Statutory vs Constitutional vs executive: their structure, functions. You’ll find some in the India Yearbook (eg. NALSA, Wakf board), some in prsindia.org (Equal opportunities commission, unified financial agency) and so on. 5. Since these bodies will also hurt @Mains level, you should prepare a ready revision note. **** Additional static content**** 1. NCERT political science- particularly for definition and concepts. what are the characters of democracy or hegemony? Mine or yours interpretation 7is irreverent in MCQ, whatever definition statements are given in NCERT = they’re correct for UPSC. 2. India Yearbook Chapter 2 and 3. (Although ministries and departments will change once Modi takes over. but other static like parliamentary Committees, NALSA etc. will remain one and same.) ****Polity current**** -> Focus: facts, features, principles. e.g. VVPAT, why Voting totalizer machine needed, how does voters ink work, what are the deposits, when is deposit attached and so on. -> Similarly, Hindu is giving ball by ball commentary on separation of Andhra – this Committee visited, that organization proposed xyz = again core facts/ features only. -> Bills, Act: PRSindia.org
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