The State Finance Commission in Rajasthan is constituted under which article of the Constitution?

Explanation

Article 243-I sits in Part IX of the Constitution, the part dealing with Panchayats. It requires the Governor of a State to constitute a Finance Commission every five years to review the financial position of Panchayats and make recommendations to the Governor. Those recommendations cover how State taxes, duties, tolls and fees may be distributed or assigned to Panchayats, grants-in-aid from the Consolidated Fund of the State, and measures needed to improve Panchayat finances. That is why, for Rajasthan, the State Finance Commission is linked to Panchayati Raj financial devolution rather than to general legislative powers or elections.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) Article 246 concerns the subject-matter of laws made by Parliament and State Legislatures, not the constitution of a State Finance Commission for Panchayats.
• (B) Article 280 provides for the Finance Commission constituted by the President, whose recommendations concern Union-State fiscal distribution, not Rajasthan's State Finance Commission under Part IX.
• (C) Article 243-K deals with the superintendence, direction and control of Panchayat electoral rolls and elections, not Panchayat financial devolution.

Concept

This tests the constitutional architecture of Panchayati Raj finance under Part IX. It recurs in RAS because Rajasthan polity questions often ask candidates to distinguish local self-government finance from elections and general Centre-State fiscal provisions.

Source

• India Code: The Constitution of India

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