Consider the following statements regarding the Special Category Status awarded to states in India 1...........

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Consider the following statements regarding the Special Category Status awarded to states in India:

1. The Special Category Status to a state is awarded by National Development Council (NDC).

2. Economic and infrastructural backwardness of a state is the only criterion to award the special status.

3. Recently Telangana got the Special category status.

Which of the above statements are correct?

1 only

2&3 only

1&3 only

All of the above

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Explanation:

Some of the features required for special status are:
i. hilly and difficult terrain;
ii. low population density or sizeable share of tribal population;
iii. strategic location along borders with neighbouring countries;
iv. economic and infrastructural backwardness; and
v. non-viable nature of state finances.

Initially three states Assam, Nagaland and Jammu & Kashmir were granted special status but since then eight more have been included (Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura and Uttarakhand).Hence statement 3rd is incorrect.