CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Article 371 - provision with respect to the States of Maharashtra(Vidarbha and Marathwada) and Gujarat(Saurashtra and Kutch). Article 371A - Special provision with respect to the State of Nagaland(Naga hills, Tuensang area). It was inserted into the Part XXI of the Indian Constitution in the year 1962.

Detailed explanation-2: -Administration of Union territories. Creation of local Legislatures or Council of Ministers or both for certain Union territories.

Detailed explanation-3: -The State shall, within the limits of its economic capacity and development, make effective provision for securing the right to work, to education and to public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement, and in other cases of undeserved want.

Detailed explanation-4: -Article 258(1). Notwithstanding anything in this constitution, the President may, with the consent of the Government of a State, entrust either conditionally or unconditionally to that Government or to its officers functions in relation to any matter to which the executive power of the Union extends.