In which year was Madhya Pradesh Zila Yojana Samiti Adhiniyam passed?

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Correct — B, 1995. The Madhya Pradesh Zila Yojana Samiti Adhiniyam was passed in 1995 (it received the Governor's assent on 19 May 1995). The Act constitutes a District Planning Committee (Zila Yojana Samiti) in each district to consolidate the plans of the panchayats and municipalities into a single district development plan — giving effect to Article 243ZD, which the 74th Constitutional Amendment (1992) had inserted for exactly this purpose.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Two years too late — the Adhiniyam is a 1995 Act (assent on 19 May 1995), and its very title carries the year 1995.  (c) This is when the 73rd/74th Constitutional Amendments came into force, but MP's District Planning Committee Act itself was passed in 1995.  (d) Predates the 74th Amendment (1992) that first mandated District Planning Committees, so the enabling MP Act could not have been passed in 1991.

Concept: District Planning Committees (DPCs) are constitutional bodies under Article 243ZD, inserted by the 74th Amendment (1992). Each district's DPC consolidates the development plans prepared by the rural panchayats and urban municipalities into one draft district development plan. States enacted their own laws to set these up; Madhya Pradesh did so through the Zila Yojana Samiti Adhiniyam, 1995. Four-fifths of a DPC's members are elected from among the elected members of the Zila Panchayat and the municipalities.

State PCS 2018 Q67 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2018 Q67 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer