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 Indian Parliament

Parliament building which represents the legislature.

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 Rashtrapathi Bhavan.

The executive and the official residence of the president of india

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Supreme court complex

Represents indian judiciary.

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Organs of the government
 Legislature in India.

●
Legislature in india is known as the parliament
● It consists of the President and the 2 houses.

PARLIAMENT
Rajya sabha Lok sabha

upper house lower house

BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE
 Find out more countries having
bicameral legislature.
● U S A- the Senete
- the House of representatives.

● England – House of lords

House of commons.
● Pakisthan – Aiwan-e-bala
-Quami assembly.
● Nepal – National assembly
- House of representatives.
Rajya sabha hall.

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 Rajya Sabha chairman.

1st Rajya Sabha chairman

The present Rajya Sabha chairman
S. Radhakrishnan.
Venkaiah Naidu.
 Rajya sabha

238 elected members

12 nominated members

Known as council of states

Permanent house

Vice president presides over the sessions

Lok sabha hall.
LOK SABHA SPEAKERS..

1st Lok Sabha Speaker Present Lok Sabha Speaker

G V Mavalankar. Sumithra Mahajan.
 Lok sabha

534 directly elected members

2 nominated members

Known as House of Representatives

Elected for the term of 5 years

Presided over by the Speaker.

 The president of India is not a member of
Parliament.
But he is considered as the integral part of the
Parliament.
Indian Parliament.
 Functions of the Parliament.

● Legislation is the primary function of the parliament.

● Asking questions
● Passing or rejecting no confidence motion
● Participating the elections of the president
and vice president
● Timely amendment of the constitutional provisions.

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A law in draft form is called a bill.
 Types of bill.

● An ordinary bill

● Money bill.
 Stages of passing a bill.

First house

First Second Third

Bill Reading Reading
Reading

2nd house

Second First
Approval of Third Reading Reading
The President. Reading
 Various stages of passing a bill.

● First reading the bill is introduced

● Second reading each and every article include
in the bill is either passed,
changed or rejected after
discussion.
● Third reading the bill as a whole is passed
or rejected.
 Money bill

Any bill relating to the collection of revenue

or expenditure from the consolidated fund.
The constitution states that a money bill can

be introduced only in the Lok sabha.

 Stages of passing a money bill.

● Bill is introduced and passed in Lok sabha

● It is sent to the Rajya sabha with the certificate of the
Speaker
● Rajya sabha must return the money bill, along with
it's recommendations to the Lok sabha
with in a period of 14 days
● Lok sabha can accept or reject the recommendations
of the Rajya sabha.
 After the bill is passed in two houses
It is sent to the President for approval.
On getting approval of the President
The bill becomes a Law.
State legislature
 Difference between unicameral
&bicameral legislature.

Unicameral Bicameral
The state legislature has one house The state legislature has two houses

Eg: kerala , Tamilnadu. Lower house - legislative

assembly
Upper house - legislative
council.
Eg:Bihar, u.p, karnataka etc.
The organ of the goverment which impliments
Law and administers the country is called the
Executive.
 Two levels of executive.
The central executive State executive

Consists of president, central ministers Consists of Governor, state ministers

And bureaucracy. and
Bureaucracy.
The president and Ministers are Governor and state ministers are
elected - elected-
So they are POLITICAL EXECUTIVE
Bureaucrats are appointed on the
basis of qualification and continue in
office till retirement
They are PERMANENT EXECUTIVE
 President.

First president Current president

Dr.Rajendra Prasad. Ram Nath Kovind.
 The president is the head of the Indian
Republic.
He is elected by an electoral collage for
A term of 5 years.
 Electoral collage consists of..

● Elected members of Lok sabha.

Rajya sabha.
State legislative
assembly.
 Functions of the President.

● Appoint prime minister and other ministers.

● Appoint chief justice and judges of the
supreme court.
● Act as the supreme commander of armed
forces.
● Give assent to bills passed by the parliament
● Declare emergency in the country if needed.
 Vice President.

1st vice president Current vice president

Vice president is also elected by an electoral
college .The members of lok sabha & rajya
sabha
are members of this electoral college .
He is elected for a term of 5 years.
 Functions

● Performs the functions of the president

in his absence.
● Presides over the sessions of Rajya sabha.
 Union council of ministers.

● Consists of ...
● Prime minister
● Cabinet ministers
● Ministers of state
● Deputy ministers.
Find out the names & portfolios of the central
cabinet ministers.
 Prime ministers.

1st prime minister Current prime minister

 Functions

● Acts as the leader of lok sabha

● Presides over the meetings of the cabinet
● Co-ordinates the functions of the council of
ministers
● Inform the President about the decisions
taken by the Cabinet.
 Governor.

● The head of the

state level
executive.

P Sadasivam.
 Judiciary.

Judiciary which interprets the laws passed

by the legislature.
 Structure of Indian Judiciary.
Supreme Court - The apex court in jurisdiction all over India.

High Courts- Hear cases that arise in the state

District Courts – Hear cases in the districts

Sub Courts, Munsif courts, and Magistrate Courts – Hear taluk level
cases
 Supreme court judges.

H J Kania
Deepak Misra.
 Structure of Supreme Court.

● Apex court of India.

● Consists of chief justice and judges
appointed by the President.
● At present the Supreme court has a Chief
justice and 30 judges.
 Cases considered by Supreme
court.

● Cases relating to cases that arise between

violation of fundamental rights
● Cases that arise between state government
and central government
● Disputes between state government
●

●
State high court.

Highest court in a state.

High court consists of the Chief Justice and
other judges appointed by the President.
 Juridiction of high court.

● Give verdicts on cases relating to violation of

fundamental rights.
● Hears civil and criminal appeal cases
from the lower courts
● Interprets laws passed by the state
legislature.
 States having no high courts.
High courts Jurisdiction shared

Hyderabad High Court Andhra Pradesh

Telengana
Guwahati High Court Assam , Nagaland

Mizoram , Arunachal Pradesh

Punjab and Hariyana High Court Punjab, Hariyana

Bombay High Court Maharashtra

Goa
 Subordinate Courts.

Consists of...
● District courts
● Sub courts
● Munsief courts
● Magistrate courts
● They give verdicts on civi and criminal cases.
Thank you.
 Prepared by
Sandhya H S A
GHSS Palayamkunnu...
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