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• British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald created the Communal Award on 16 August 1932.
• Also known as the MacDonald Award.
• It was announced after the Round Table Conference (1930–1932) 
• The background to the Poona Pact was the Communal Award of August 1932,
• They provided a separate electorate for depressed classes.
• In 1932, B.R. Ambedkar negotiated the Poona Pact with Mahatma Gandhi.

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1. Federal Legislative List (matters reserved for the central government)
2. Provincial Legislative List (matters reserved for the provinces)
3. Concurrent Legislative List (matters on which both center and provinces could legislate)

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• Uranium deposits are found in Dera Ghazi Khan of Punjab.
• The uranium mill was also established in Pakistan in 1977-78.

Additional information:

• Kazakhstan is the biggest producer of Uranium in the world.
  
  
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• The Basic Principles Committee (BPC) was established on 12 March 1949 to help prepare Pakistan’s future constitution.
• It worked on constitutional principles in light of the Objectives Resolution, passed on 12 March 1949.
• The committee examined constitutional issues and made recommendations concerning the structure of government and distribution of powers.
• The Objectives Resolution was later incorporated into Pakistan’s Constitution through Article 2A in 1985.

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• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (NWFP): Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan (1947).

Additional information:

• Punjab: Nawab Iftikhar Hussain Khan Mamdot (1947).
• Sindh: Khan Bahadur Muhammad Ayub Khuhro (1947).
• Balochistan: Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal (1972).

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• The Poona Pact was signed on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune, British India.
• It was an agreement between Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi’s representatives, including Madan Mohan Malaviya.
• The pact provided reserved electoral seats for the Depressed Classes within joint electorates, instead of separate electorates.
• It was signed during the viceroyalty of Lord Willingdon (1931–1936).

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• Motilal Nehru presented the Nehru Report with his son, Jawaharlal Nehru.
• Date Presented: August 1928 (at the All Parties Conference in Lucknow)
  
• Main Goal: To draft a new constitution and demand Dominion Status for India in response to a challenge by the British Secretary of State, Lord Birkenhead.

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• Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was established in 1920 by an Act of the British Indian Legislative Council.
• Sir Syed Ahmad Khan founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) School in 1875.
• The school was upgraded to college level in 1877.
• Lord Lytton, the Viceroy of India, laid the foundation stone of MAO College on 8 January 1877.

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