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UPSC Prelims 2025 GS Paper 1, question 52

Topic: Polity and governance

Q52

Consider the following pairs :

State : Description

I. Arunachal Pradesh : The capital is named after a fort, and the State has two National Parks

II. Nagaland : The State came into existence on the basis of a Constitutional Amendment Act

III. Tripura : Initially a Part ‘C’ State, it became a centrally administered territory with the reorganization of States in 1956 and later attained the status of a full-fledged State

How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

  1. (a) Only one
  2. (b) Only two
  3. (c) All the threeCorrect answer
  4. (d) None

Solution.

Answer: (c) All the three

  1. Pair I is correctly matched: Arunachal Pradesh's capital Itanagar is named after the historic Ita Fort (14th-15th century), and the State has two National Parks (Namdapha and Mouling).
  2. Pair II is correctly matched: Nagaland's creation as a State in 1963 was anchored in the Constitution (Thirteenth Amendment) Act, 1962 (inserting Article 371A to give effect to the 1960 16-Point Agreement alongside the State of Nagaland Act, 1962).
  3. Pair III is correctly matched: Tripura was a Part 'C' State under the 1950 Constitution, became a Union Territory under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, and attained full statehood in January 1972.

Trap: Nagaland was created by the State of Nagaland Act, 1962, while the 13th Amendment added Article 371A for it; reading Pair II as 'created by the Amendment Act alone' would give (b).