Daily Challenge
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Daily Challenge — 27 October 2026
Week 4 of Mission CGPSC 2027 · Courts & Crowns — Judiciary, state government and federal relations; British rule, princely states and the freedom movement in Chhattisgarh. See the full plan.
Centre-State Relations
Consider the following statements about laws made by Parliament under Article 252 of the Constitution:
- Such a law can be made only if the legislatures of two or more states pass resolutions requesting Parliament to legislate.
- A state that has adopted such a law can later amend it through its own legislature.
- The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 was enacted under this procedure.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Article 252 lets Parliament legislate on a State List matter when two or more State legislatures pass resolutions asking it to; other states may adopt the law later. Such a law can be amended or repealed only by Parliament, so statement 2 is wrong. The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 is a commonly cited example of a law made under Article 252.
1857 and the Freedom Movement in Chhattisgarh
Veer Narayan Singh, honoured as Chhattisgarh’s first martyr of the 1857 struggle, was the zamindar of which of the following?
Veer Narayan Singh was the Binjhwar zamindar of Sonakhan (in present-day Baloda Bazar-Bhatapara district). After seizing a hoarder’s grain for famine victims in 1856 he was arrested, escaped from Raipur jail in 1857 and was hanged at Raipur on 10 December 1857. Paralkot is linked with Gend Singh, Lingagiri with Dhurwa Rao and Kandel with the 1920 canal satyagraha.
Reading Comprehension
In CGPSC Prelims Paper II, each question carries 2 marks and one-third of the question’s marks is deducted for a wrong answer. A candidate confidently eliminates two of the four options in a comprehension question and then guesses between the remaining two. The expected marks from this guess are:
With two options left, the chance of being right is 1/2. Expected marks = (1/2)(2) − (1/2)(2/3) = 1 − 1/3 = 2/3. By contrast, a blind guess among all four options has an expected value of (1/4)(2) − (3/4)(2/3) = 0, which is why elimination before guessing matters.