Which of the following pairs of Part of Indian Constitution and its subject is/are NOT correctly matched ?
1. Part IV A - Fundamental Duties
2. Part VI - The States
3. Part XI - The Municipaliti

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Which of the following pairs of Part of Indian Constitution and its subject is/are NOT correctly matched ?
1. Part IV A  -  Fundamental Duties
2. Part VI  -  The States
3. Part XI  -  The Municipalities
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Correct — C, Only 3. The question asks which pairs are NOT correctly matched, so you have to find the mismatches and then pick the option that names exactly those and nothing else. Pair 1 is right: Part IVA of the Constitution is titled 'Fundamental Duties' and consists of a single article, Article 51A, inserted by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976 on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee. Pair 2 is right: Part VI is titled 'The States' (Articles 152 to 237) and covers the Governor, the State executive, the State legislature, the High Courts and the subordinate courts. Pair 3 is the only mismatch: Part XI is 'Relations between the Union and the States' (Articles 245 to 263). The Municipalities are in Part IXA (Articles 243P to 243ZG), which was inserted by the Constitution (Seventy-fourth Amendment) Act, 1992. Only the third pair is wrong, so the answer is 'Only 3'.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) This says Part IVA-Fundamental Duties and Part VI-The States are both wrongly matched, when both are exactly as the Constitution has them. It also leaves out pair 3, which is the one genuine error. Every element of this option is the reverse of the truth.  (b) It gets pair 3 right — Part XI is not the Municipalities — but wrongly drags in pair 2. Part VI really is titled 'The States': Articles 152 to 237 cover the Governor, the State executive, the State legislature, the High Courts and the subordinate courts. This is the closest wrong option, because a candidate who has found the genuine mismatch still has to resist adding a second name to it.  (d) The exact inversion of the answer. It indicts the one pair that is textbook-correct (Part IVA-Fundamental Duties) while clearing the pair that is actually wrong (Part XI-The Municipalities). This is the option a candidate marks when panic over the 'NOT' framing makes them stop reading after statement 1.

Concept: The Constitution of India is organised into Parts, each with a title that names its subject, and the Parts are numbered in Roman numerals. Some Parts were added later and carry letter suffixes: Part IVA (Fundamental Duties, 42nd Amendment, 1976), Part IXA (The Municipalities, 74th Amendment, 1992) and Part IXB (The Co-operative Societies, 97th Amendment, 2011). Local government occupies the IX block — Part IX for the Panchayats and Part IXA for the Municipalities — while Part XI is reserved for the vertical relationship between the Union and the States.

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