In which year was the Office of the Parliamentary Secretary created first time in Independent India?

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Correct — A, 1951. The commission's final key fixes 1951 as the year the office of Parliamentary Secretary was first created in independent India. A Parliamentary Secretary is a sitting legislator attached to a minister to assist with that ministry's House-related and departmental work; the post carries no independent charge of a department. The remaining choices are all later years, so they cannot mark the first creation.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) A year later; the commission's key identifies 1951, not 1952, as the first year the post was created.  (c) Too late — the key sets the first creation at 1951, several years before 1957.  (d) The key marks 1951 as the first-creation year; 1962 is well after that and is not the answer.

Concept: A Parliamentary Secretary is a Member of Parliament (or MLA in a state) appointed to help a minister carry the parliamentary and departmental workload of a ministry. The office is borrowed from the British parliamentary system and has no independent charge. Because the holder is a legislator drawing office perks, such appointments have repeatedly been challenged as holding an 'office of profit', which can disqualify a member under Articles 102(1)(a) for MPs and 191(1)(a) for MLAs.

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