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What is the Article 275?

What is the Article 275?

1.2 Grants-in-aid under Proviso to Article 275(1) of Constitution of India are 100% annual grant from Government of India to States. It is charged to Consolidated Fund of India (except grants for NE States, a voted item) and is an additive to State initiatives and efforts for Tribal Development.

What was Article 270?

Article 270 permitted mandatory sharing of the net proceeds of income tax levied and collected by the Union with the States. Such proceeds assigned to States did not form part of the Consolidated Fund of India. The shares of the States in Union excise duties were to be paid from the Consolidated Fund of India.

What is Article 244A of Indian Constitution?

The Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-second Amendment) Act, 1969, inserted new article 244A in the Constitution to empower Parliament to enact a law for constituting an autonomous State within the State of Assam and also to provide the autonomous State …

Under which fund the Parliament will be giving the grants for States?

Contingency Fund of India (Article 267) The constitution provides the parliament to establish a Contingency Fund of India. The parliament established Contingency Fund of India in 1950.

What is Article 269 A?

(1) Goods and services tax on supplies in the course of inter-State trade or commerce shall be levied and collected by the Government of India and such tax shall be apportioned between the Union and the States in the manner as may be provided by Parliament by law on the recommendations of the Goods and Services Tax …

What is a demand for grant?

Definition: Demand for Grants is the form in which estimates of expenditure from the Consolidated Fund, included in the annual financial statement and required to be voted upon in the Lok Sabha, are submitted in pursuance of Article 113 of the Constitution.

What is no demand for a grant?

Article 113 (iii) prescribes that no demand for grants can be presented in the Lok Sabha without the President of India’s prior approval. Under Articles 117 and 274 of the Indian Constitution, a Presidential recommendation is also required for tabling a Money Bill in the Lok Sabha.