1.

Andhra Pradesh, Indias first linguistic State that was carved out from
erstwhile Madras.
2. Food and other primary articles are assigned a relatively low weight of 22 per
cent in the WPI index.
3. Since mid-October, the government has started announcing the WPI inflation
once a month; weekly announcements are confined to food and fuel inflation.
The new system has not only infused a measure of transparency in the official
economic data but it is also in line with what ordinary people experience
every day
The Collegium:
The collegium method was created as a result of two judgments of the Supreme
Court, first in 1993 (Supreme Court Advocate-on-Record Association case) and by a
follow-up Presidents Reference to the Court in 1998. With the best of intentions of
securing the independence of the judiciary, the Supreme Court rewrote the
provisions of the Constitution for appointment of judges and appropriated the power
to appoint judges by the judges. By the first case the power was vested in the Chief
Justice of India in whom it was held the primacy lay in appointments assisted by two
judges of the Supreme Court. In the second case the court took away the primacy of
the Chief Justice of India and vested the power in a collegium of the Chief Justice of
India and four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court.
In India proposals for the establishment of a National Commission for Judicial
Appointments have been made at various times. The Law Commission in 1987
recommended a broad based body of judges and other person to make
recommendations for the appointments of judges. A Constitutional Amendment Bill
was tabled in Parliament for the establishment of such a Commission in 1990 but it
lapsed. The National Commission to Review the Constitution 2002 set up by the
Government of India favoured a National Judicial Commission with a predominance
of judicial members as an alternative to the collegium system. With the size of the
Indian superior judiciary, it may be necessary to have two judicial commissions in
India, one for the Supreme Court and another for the High Courts.