Provision for the Public Service Commission for the Union and the States is contained in which Article of the Constitution of India?

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Correct — B, Article 315. Part XIV of the Constitution ('Services Under the Union and the States') opens with Article 315, which provides for a Public Service Commission for the Union (the UPSC) and a Public Service Commission for each State (or a Joint Commission for two or more States, under Article 315(2)).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Article 340 empowers the President to appoint a commission to investigate the conditions of socially and educationally backward classes — the basis for the Mandal Commission, not the PSC.  (c) Article 328 empowers a State Legislature to make provision for elections to its own Legislature, subject to Parliament's power under Article 327 — an election-law provision, not a PSC provision.  (d) Article 238 dealt with the administration of former 'Part B States' and was repealed by the Seventh Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956 — it has nothing to do with the PSC.

Concept: Part XIV of the Constitution ('Services Under the Union and the States') begins with Article 315, establishing a Public Service Commission for the Union and one for each State — the institutional machinery for recruitment to civil services. Article 316 covers appointment and tenure of members, Article 317 covers removal, and Article 320 lays out the Commissions' functions.

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