The 74th Amendment provides for how many types of municipalities?

Explanation

Article 243Q, inserted through Part IXA by the Constitution (Seventy-fourth Amendment) Act, classifies municipalities into three constitutional categories. A Nagar Panchayat is meant for a transitional area, that is, an area moving from rural to urban status. A Municipal Council is for a smaller urban area, while a Municipal Corporation is for a larger urban area. The amendment's own statement of objects also frames this as the constitution of three types of municipalities. This is why option B is right: the provision is not a loose administrative list but the constitutional framework for urban local self-government under Part IXA.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) Four is wrong because Article 243Q names only three categories: Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council and Municipal Corporation.
• (C) Two is wrong because it leaves out one of the three constitutionally listed municipal forms under Article 243Q.
• (D) Five is wrong because the 74th Amendment does not add any fourth or fifth type beyond the three listed in Article 243Q.

Concept

This tests Part IXA of the Constitution and the 74th Amendment's framework for urban local bodies. It recurs in RAS because municipal governance is a core Indian polity and local self-government topic.

Source

• Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India

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