Under which Provision, the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission has been constituted?

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Correct — B, Section 118(3) of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. When that Act created the new State of Madhya Pradesh (formed on 1 November 1956), Section 118 carried the provisions for the Public Service Commissions of the reorganised States, and sub-section (3) is the provision under which the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission was constituted.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) A neighbouring sub-section of the same Act, but not the one under which the MP Public Service Commission was constituted per the commission's key.  (c) Section 118(1) is not the constituting provision the commission's key cites for the MP Public Service Commission.  (d) Wrong section altogether — the key points to Section 118(3), not 116(4).

Concept: The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 redrew India's internal map largely on linguistic lines and created the State of Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 1956. For the newly reorganised States the Act itself provided for their Public Service Commissions; Section 118(3) is the statutory basis of the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission, which functions under Article 315 of the Constitution and is headquartered at Indore.

State PCS 2020 Q40 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q40 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer