UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Government of India, in consultation with UT of Ladakh, identify 28 places/features, located in the UT of Ladakh, by standard place and feature names on the official map of Survey of India (SoI)

Q1. With reference to the identification of standard names for 28 features in Ladakh on the official Survey of India map, consider the following statements: Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. The Survey of India is a pre-Independence institution whose work includes the Great Trigonometrical Survey of the nineteenth century.
  2. Putting a standard name for a peak or glacier on the official map is a different act from changing a territory's boundaries, and does not need parliamentary legislation.
  3. The standard names were brought into force through an amendment to the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.
  • A. 1 and 2 only
  • B. 1 and 3 only
  • C. 1, 2 and 3
  • D. 2 and 3 only

Q2. The National Geospatial Policy, 2022 treats geospatial data produced with public funds, including Survey of India data, as a public good. Consider the following statements: Which of the statements given above is/are consistent with this approach?

  1. Treating the data as a public good means the government should stop funding surveys and leave the supply of geospatial data to markets.
  2. Because one more user of a dataset does not reduce what others can use, wider access raises its social value at little additional cost.
  3. Making taxpayer-funded datasets openly accessible lets firms and citizens build products on them instead of recreating the same data.
  • A. 1, 2 and 3
  • B. 3 only
  • C. 2 and 3 only
  • D. 1 and 2 only

Q3. With reference to the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India, consider the following statements: Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. District Councils may constitute village councils or courts to try suits and cases between parties who all belong to Scheduled Tribes.
  2. The President may extend the Sixth Schedule to tribal areas of any State or Union Territory by issuing an order.
  3. The Governor may, by public notification, create a new autonomous district or alter the name of an existing one.
  • A. 1 and 2 only
  • B. 1 and 3 only
  • C. 1, 2 and 3
  • D. 2 and 3 only

Q4. With reference to the administration of Union Territories in India, consider the following statements: Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. Ladakh has no legislature because of a choice Parliament made in the 2019 Reorganisation Act, not because the Constitution bars UT legislatures.
  2. Delhi's administrator is called the Lieutenant Governor because the Constitution prescribes that title for every UT administrator.
  3. A State Governor appointed as administrator of an adjoining Union Territory must act there on the advice of the State's Council of Ministers.
  • A. 1 and 3 only
  • B. 2 and 3 only
  • C. 1 and 2 only
  • D. 1 only

Q5. Consider the following assertion: Bringing Ladakh under the Sixth Schedule would give its local communities a formal say over matters such as land use, which are now decided by an administration answerable to the Union. Which of the following statements support/supports the above assertion?

  1. District Councils can make laws on the allotment, occupation or use of land, other than land that is a reserved forest.
  2. Most members of a District Council are elected on the basis of adult suffrage.
  3. Up to four members of a District Council may be nominated by the Governor.
  • A. 1 only
  • B. 1, 2 and 3
  • C. 2 and 3 only
  • D. 1 and 2 only