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Option 1 : Only 1 is incorrect
The correct answer is 1 i.e. Only 1 is incorrect.
Council of ministers:
- It is a wider body consisting of 60 to 70 ministers.
- It includes all the three categories of ministers, i.e. cabinet ministers, ministers of state, and deputy ministers.
- It does not meet, as a body, to transact government business. It has no collective functions.
- It is vested with all powers but in theory.
- Its functions are determined by the cabinet.
- It implements the decisions taken by the cabinet.
- It is a constitutional body, dealt in detail by the Articles 74 and 75 of the Constitution.
- Its size and classification are, however, not mentioned in the Constitution.
- Its size is determined by the prime minister according to the exigencies of the time and requirements of the situation.
- Its classification into a three-tier body is based on the conventions of parliamentary government as developed in Britain.
- It has, however, got a legislative sanction. Thus, the Salaries and Allowances Act of 1952 defines a ‘minister’ as a ‘member of the council of ministers, by whatever name called, and includes a deputy minister’.
- It is collectively responsible to the Lower House of the Parliament.
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