The correct answer is 1, 3 and 4. Explanation & Key Takeaways: • The Government of India Act 1919 was an act of the British Parliament that sought to increase the participation of Indians in the administration of their country. • The act was based on the recommendations of a report by Edwin Montagu, the then Secretary of State for India, and Lord Chelmsford, India’s Viceroy between 1916 and 1921. • Hence the constitutional reforms set forth by this act are known as Montagu-Chelmsford reforms or Montford reforms. Features of the Act: • It relaxed the central control over the provinces by demarcating and separating the central and provincial subjects. • The central and provincial legislatures were authorized to make laws on their respective list of subjects. However, the structure of government continued to be centralized and unitary. • It further divided the provincial subjects into two parts—transferred and reserved. • The reserved subjects, on the other hand, were to be administered by the governor and his executive council without being responsible to the Legislative Council. • It included subjects such as law and order, finance, land revenue, irrigation, etc. Hence Option 3 is correct. • All important subjects were kept in the reserved subjects of the Provincial Executive. • The transferred subjects were to be administered by the governor with the aid of ministers responsible to the Legislative Council. • It included subjects such as education, health, local government, industry, agriculture, excise, etc. • In case of failure of constitutional machinery in the province, the governor could take over the administration of transferred subjects also. • The Act introduced a diarchy (rule of two individuals/parties) for the executive at the level of the provincial government. • It introduced, for the first time, bicameralism and direct elections in the country. • Thus, the Indian Legislative Council was replaced by a bicameral legislature consisting of an Upper House (Council of State) and a Lower House (Legislative Assembly). • The majority of members of both the Houses were chosen by direct election. • It required that three of the six members of the Viceroy’s Executive Council (other than the commander-in-chief) were to be Indian. • It extended the principle of communal representation by providing separate electorates for Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians, and Europeans. • It granted franchises to a limited number of people on the basis of property, tax, or education. • It created a new office of the High Commissioner for India in London and transferred to him some of the functions hitherto performed by the Secretary of State for India. • It provided for the establishment of a public service commission. Hence, a Central Public Service Commission was set up in 1926 for recruiting civil servants. • It separated, for the first time, provincial budgets from the Central budget and authorized the provincial legislatures to enact their budgets. • It provided for the appointment of a statutory commission to inquire into and report on its working after ten years of its coming into force.