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Goods and Services Tax (GST)  will replace  all  central  as well as  state taxes  by  a  single  tax.  GST  will subsume  various  Central  indirect taxes,  including  the  Central  excise duty,Countervailing  duty,  Service tax,  etc.  It  also  subsumes  State Value Added Tax(VAT), Octroi and entry    tax,    Luxury    tax,    etc. Petroleum  products  like  kerosene, naphtha  and  LPG  will  be  under GST,  while  five  items,  including crude oil, natural gas, aviation fuel, diesel    and    petrol    have    been excluded.    Alcohol    for    human consumption will be out of GS

Following   are   the   qualifications which    have    to    be    met    for contesting    elections    under    the Haryana Panchayat raj:

For general  candidate  men  must  have passed   class   X,   class   VIII   for women   and   Scheduled   cast/ST, class    V    for    schedule    cast/ST women  for  elections  contesting  in the  Zila  Parishad,  Panchay  Samiti and   Post   of   the   Sarpanch.The candidate must have the functional toilet    in    his/her    home.There should  not  be  any  insolvency  or failure  to  pay  the  arrears  in  any case    such    as,    like    to    any cooperative  society,  any  bank  or electricity  bill.  The  candidate  must be clean in character likewise there should not be any charge sheet filed which  may  lead  to  imprisonment  of upto  10  years  against  the  candidate in   any   court   in   India.In   case   of Rajasthan,  the  candidate  must  not be the Leprosy Patient.

3 is incorrect.

The total number of members in the Legislative Council of a State having such a Council shall not exceed one-third of the total number of members in the Legislative Assembly of that State: Provided that the total number of members in the Legislative Council of a State shall in no case be less than forty.

Of the total number of members of the Legislative council of a State-

(a) as nearly as may be, one-third shall be elected by electorates consisting of members of municipalities, district boards and such other local authorities in the State as Parliament may by law specify;

(b) as nearly as may be, one-twelfth shall be elected by electorates consisting of persons residing in the State who have been for at least three years graduates of any university in the territory of India or have been for at least three years in possession ofqualifications prescribed by or under any law made by Parliament as equivalent to that of a graduate of any such university;

(c) as nearly as may be, one-twelfth shall be elected by electorates consisting of persons who have been for at least three years engaged in teaching in such educational institutions within the State, not lower in standard than that of a secondary school, as may be prescribed by or under any law made by Parliament;

(d) as nearly as may be, one-third shall be elected by the members of the Legislative Assembly of the State from amongst persons who are not members of the Assembly;

(e) the remainder shall be nominated by the Governor in accordance with the provisions of clause.

There are only seven states which have two-tier of legislature –Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Jammu & Kashmir.

Jammu and Kashmir Rifles is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army. It is a truly historic Indian Regiment raised by Maharaja Gulab Singh, the founder of the Dogra Kingdom in 1820. Amongst all the princely State Forces of India, it was the only one to be absorbed into the Indian Army as a separate Regiment and did not lose its entity by merger into the existing Regiments of the Army.