​Which of the following Constitutional Amendment Acts added Fundamental Duties in the Indian Constitution?​

Correct option is D

Fundamental duties were added by the 42nd Amendment Act 1976 upon the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee.

•  The idea of Fundamental Duties has been borrowed from the Constitution of the erstwhile USSR.
• Till then, Japan was only a democratic state that contains the duties of the citizen. Fundamental Duties are inserted in Part IV-A of the Indian Constitution under Article 51A.
• Originally the duties were ten in number, later on by 86th Amendment in 2002, they leveled up to eleven. In 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government had appointed the Justice J.S. Verma Committee to operationalize the ideas to teach fundamental duties to the citizens of the country.
• Forty-Second Amendment Act, 1976 is the most extensive amendment made so far to the Constitution it is known as ‘Mini-Constitution'.

Incorrect options Explanation:

•  The Constitution (Sixty-fifth Amendment) Act, 1990 established the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (NCSCST) and amended Article 338 of the Constitution of India. The act also abolished the office of the Commissioner for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
• The 74th Constitutional Amendment Act (74th CAA) of 1992 established a framework for democratic decentralization in India by giving constitutional status to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and empowering them to perform certain functions.
• The 73rd Amendment Act of 1992 to the Indian Constitution established the Panchayati Raj system, which gave local bodies the status of self-government.