UPSC Prelims 2022— Question 73

This question belongs to Polity & Governance and tests Scheduled Areas and Tribal Land. The constitutional and institutional position is decisive here. UPSC commonly places a broadly familiar rule beside a technically incorrect qualification, so the wording of each statement must be checked against the Constitution, statute or established parliamentary practice. Option A is the keyed answer because This would prevent the transfer of land of tribal people to non-tribal people. is the combination or identification that satisfies the conditions in the question. A useful way to solve the question is to separate the individual propositions from the answer-code combinations. A statement can look broadly reasonable while still being incorrect because it uses an absolute term, assigns a function to the wrong institution, confuses two related concepts, or places a feature in the wrong region or period. The keyed response should therefore be treated as the outcome of checking each proposition rather than as a memory-only exercise. Option A: This would prevent the transfer of land of tribal people to non-tribal people. — this is the correct choice under the final key. It matches the relevant Scheduled Areas and Tribal Land principle and satisfies the question's wording. Option B: This would create a local self- governing body in that area. — this is not the correct choice. It fails the question's test because it does not represent the required combination, institution, location, mechanism or historical association. The distractor is plausible only if a related concept is confused with the one actually asked. Option C: This would convert that area into a Union Territory. — this is not the correct choice. It fails the question's test because it does not represent the required combination, institution, location, mechanism or historical association. The distractor is plausible only if a related concept is confused with the one actually asked. Option D: The State having such areas would be declare a Special Category State. — this is not the correct choice. It fails the question's test because it does not represent the required combination, institution, location, mechanism or historical association. The distractor is plausible only if a related concept is confused with the one actually asked. The exam-oriented takeaway is to identify the governing fact first and only then map it to the answer code. This reduces errors caused by choosing an option because one individual statement appears familiar. For database use, the classification and explanation should be read together: the subject gives the broad domain, the topic identifies the recurring UPSC theme, and the subtopic records the precise knowledge point tested. This also makes the question useful for later topic-wise search and revision.