K.M. Munshi was related to:
- (a)Public Accounts Committee
- (b)Constitution Draft Committee
- (c)Preamble Committee
- (d)Hindu Code Bill Drafting Committee
Correct — B, Constitution Draft Committee (the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly). K.M. Munshi was one of the seven members of this committee, which was chaired by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and was responsible for preparing the actual text of the Draft Constitution of India.
- (a)Public Accounts Committee — A parliamentary financial-oversight committee; Munshi is not identified with it — his committee role was on the Constituent Assembly's Drafting Committee.
- (c)Preamble Committee — Not a recognised committee of the Constituent Assembly; the Preamble grew out of Jawaharlal Nehru's Objectives Resolution, not a separate body of this name.
- (d)Hindu Code Bill Drafting Committee — The Hindu Code Bill was prepared by the Hindu Law Committee (chaired by B.N. Rau) and piloted by Law Minister B.R. Ambedkar — Munshi is not identified with this body.
The Constituent Assembly set up several committees to frame India's Constitution. The Drafting Committee, formed in August 1947 and chaired by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, had seven members and was specifically tasked with preparing the actual text of the Draft Constitution from the decisions taken by the Assembly's other committees. K.M. Munshi — a lawyer, writer and Constituent Assembly member from Bombay — was one of its seven members.
MPPSC likes to test whether a student can pin a named individual to their exact Constituent-Assembly-era body, among several plausible-sounding but unrelated committees (a post-Independence parliamentary committee, an invented-sounding name, or a genuine but different legal drafting body). The safe approach is to memorise the small, fixed Drafting Committee roster rather than pattern-match by era or general legal reputation.
- K.M. Munshi was one of the seven members of the Constituent Assembly's Drafting Committee, chaired by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
- The Drafting Committee prepared the actual text of the Draft Constitution of India.
- Munshi also founded Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (1938), a cultural and educational institution.
- He later held public office, including as a Union Cabinet minister and as a State Governor.
- Confusing K.M. Munshi with other Constituent Assembly members who sat on different committees
- Assuming every Constituent Assembly member automatically sat on the Drafting Committee
MPPSC/UPSC often ask which committee or role a specific Constituent Assembly figure is linked to, or ask for the Drafting Committee's chairman and composition directly.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly, which prepared the Draft Constitution of India, was chaired by:
- (a)Jawaharlal Nehru
- (b)Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
- (c)Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- (d)Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer(b) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar — he chaired the seven-member Drafting Committee.
- practice — not a real PYQ
K.M. Munshi, a member of the Constituent Assembly's Drafting Committee, is also remembered as the founder of which institution?
- (a)Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
- (b)Sahitya Akademi
- (c)Indian Council for Cultural Relations
- (d)National Book Trust
Answer(a) Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan — founded by K.M. Munshi in 1938.