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Committee Fourteenth Finance Commission
Asked 5 times across 3 UPSC exams over 9 years (2015–2024), peaking in 2015.
Key insights
- Most tested in CAPF — 2 of 5 PYQs
- Most asked in 2015
- Recurs across 3 years (2015–2024)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CDS 2015 → CSE 2015 → CAPF 2024
How the concept evolved
Rising — more than half its appearances (3 of 5) are since 2016.
Related concepts
Ideas UPSC tests alongside this one — keep exploring.
Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CAPF2024
Consider the following statements
- The 15th Finance Commission used fiscal effort as a criterion for horizontal devolution unlike the 14th Finance Commission
- Both the 14th and the 15th Finance Commission used pre-2011 demographic variables as a criteria for horizontal devolution
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A 1 only
- B 2 only
- C Both 1 and 2 ✓
- D Neither 1 nor 2
✓ Correct answer: (C)
Economy › Public Finance & Budget
CAPF2024
Population of the year 2011 was first introduced in the tax devolution formula for sharing Union tax revenue with the States by
- A Thirteenth Finance Commission
- B Fifteenth Finance Commission
- C Fourteenth Finance Commission ✓
- D Twelfth Finance Commission
✓ Correct answer: (C)
Economy › Public Finance & Budget
CDS2018
The Fourteenth Finance Commission assigned different weights to the following parameters for distribution of tax proceeds to the States
- Income distance
- Population
- Demographic changes
- Area
Arrange the aforesaid parameters in descending order in terms of their weights.
- A 1-2-3-4
- B 1-2-4-3 ✓
- C 1-3-2-4
- D 4-3-2-1
✓ Correct answer: (B)
Economy › Public Finance & Budget
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