Which among the following acts/bills were proposed by the Motilal Nehru Committee in the year 1928 ?

The correct answer is Bill of rights.

Key Points

• The Motilal Nehru Committee, also known as the All Parties Conference Committee, was a committee appointed by the All Parties Conference in 1928 to draft a constitution for India.
• The committee was chaired by Motilal Nehru and included other prominent Indian leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Ali Imam, and Tej Bahadur Sapru.
• The committee submitted its report in 1928, which is known as the Nehru Report.
• The Nehru Report proposed a dominion status for India and a federal system of government.
• It also proposed a number of other reforms, including-
• A bill of rights
• Abolition of the Criminal Tribes Act
• Repeal of the Sindh Land Alienation Bill
• Of the options you have given, only the Bill of rights was proposed by the Motilal Nehru Committee in the year 1928.

 Additional Information

• The Ilbert Bill was a bill introduced in the British Indian Legislative Council in 1883.
• It proposed to give Indian judges the same jurisdiction over Europeans as European judges had over Indians.
• The bill was ultimately defeated, but it was a significant step in the Indian independence movement.
• The Criminal Tribes Act was a British law that was used to designate certain communities as criminal.
• This gave the police the power to arrest and detain members of these communities without charge.
• The act was widely criticized by Indian nationalists and was eventually repealed in 1952.
• The Sindh Land Aviation Bill was a bill introduced in the Sindh Legislative Assembly in 1926.
• It proposed to give the government the power to acquire land for aviation purposes. The bill was opposed by landowners and was eventually withdrawn.