UPSC Prelims 2025 · GS Paper 1 · Q56

Polity

Medium · Fifth Schedule / Tribal areas

With reference to Fifth Schedule areas, consider the following statements:

1. When a State Government fails to properly govern a Fifth Schedule area, the State loses all its executive power over that area automatically.

2. The Union Government can take over the administration of a Fifth Schedule area directly, bypassing the State, purely at its own discretion.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?