UPSC PYQPrelims 2023

Civil Services Examination · Question 29

Consider the following: 1. Demographic performance 2. Forest and ecology 3. Governance reforms 4. Stable government 5. Tax and fiscal efforts For the horizontal tax devolution, the Fifteenth Finance Commission used how many of the above as criteria other than population, area and income distance?

  1. Only two
  2. Only three
  3. Only four
  4. All five
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Answer: (B) Only three

Explanation

XV FC criteria: income distance, population (2011), area, forest and ecology, demographic performance, and tax and fiscal efforts.