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GOVERNANCE, POLICIES AND

ADMINISTRATION
 HISTORY OF THE INDIAN
1. CONSTITUTION
Who is the chairman of the Drafting Committee ?

2. Who is regarded as the Father of the Indian Constitution?

3. Who gave the idea for having our own Indian Constitution?

4. When was the first meeting of the constitution being held?

5. When was the constitution of India got adopted?

6. Which date the constitution of India came into effect?

7. How many members are there in the Constituent Assembly?

MAIN ARCHITECTS OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION

K.M. MUNSHI VALLABH BHAI PATEL

WOMEN OF THE DRAFTING COMMITTEE: 15
STRUCTURE OF THE INDIAN
CONSTITUTION
AT PRESENT THERE ARE XXV
PARTS, 448 ARTICLES, 12
SCHEDULES

IN 1950, THERE WERE XXII

PARTS, 395 ARTICLES, 8
SCHEDULES
 PREAMBLE : KEY TO
THE
CONSTITUTION/INTODUCT
ION

SOCIALIST, SECULAR,
INTEGRITY WERE ADDED BY
42ND AMENDMENT ACT, 1976
BORROWED FEATURES
PART OF THE
INDIAN
CONSTITUTIO
NS
PART I : INDIAN STATE AND UNION
TERRITORIES
1. HOW MANY STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES ARE THERE IN
INDIA?

2. Which is the first state created on linguistic basis and in which

year?
 PART II: CITIZENSHIP
1. HOW MANY WAYS ONE CAN BECOME THE CITIZEN OF INDIA?

2. HOW MANY WAYS ARE THERE IN LOSING THE CITIZENSHIP?

3. WHICH YEAR THE CITIZENSHIP ACT CAME INTO EFFECT?

PART III: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
(ARTICLE 12-35)
1. HOW MANY FUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS ARE THERE NOW?

2. EARLIER HAOW MANY RIGHTS

WERE THERE/

3. WHAT IS THE NATURE OF

FUNAMENTAL RIGHTS/

4. ARE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

JUSTICIABLE/NONJUSTICIABLE/SE
MI JUSTICIABLE/NONE?
PART IV: DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF
STATE POLICY (ARTICLE 36-51)
1. NATURE: SOCIO-ECONOMIC

2. RIGHT TO PROPERTY WAS SHIFTED

UNDER THE CHAPTER OF DPSP BY
44TH AMENDMENT ACT, 1978

3. NON-JUSTICIABLE RIGHT

4. DR AMBEDKAR CALLED THIS AS “

INSTRUMENTS OF INDIAN
CONSTITUTION”
PART IVA: FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES(ARTICLE 51A)
 ADMINISTRATION:3WINGS
WINGS UNION STATE LOCAL
EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR RURAL URBAN
VICE PRESIDENT ----- PANCHAYATI NAGARPALIK
PRIME MINISTER CHIEF MINISTER RAJ A
UNION COUNCIL OF STATE COUNCIL OF INSTITUTIONS
MINISTERS MINISTERS

LEGISLATURE PRESIDENT GOVERNOR

LOKSABHA BIDHAN SABHA
RAJYA SABHA BIDHAN PARISHAD

JUDICIARY SUPREME COURT HIGH COURT

 UNION
EXECUTIV
E:
PRESIDEN
T
KEY POINTS/KEY QUESTION AREA
• 35 YEARS OF AGE • APPOINTED FOR 5 YEARS

• HEAD OF THE STATE • ENJOYS EXECUTIVE,

LEGISLATIVE,
• NOMINAL HEAD JUDICIAL,MILITARY
POWERS
• INDIRECT ELECTION
• EMERGENCY POWERS:3
• ELECTORAL COLLEGE • NATIONAL:ART352
(BOTH MPS &MLAs) • STATE:ART 356
• FINANCIAL:ART 360
• 2 CONSECUTIVE
PERIOD
POWERS:
VICE PRESIDENT
OF INDIA

•EX OFFCIO CHAIRMAN OF RAJYASABHA

•HE IS NOT A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

PRIME
MINISTER
•REAL HEAD OF THE STATE

•HE IS THE LEADER OF THE

MAJORITY PARTY OF THE LOK
SABHA
UNION COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

COLLECTIVELY RESPONSIBLE TO
LOKSABHA/PARLIAMENT

INDIVIDUALLY RESPONSIBLE TO
PM
UNION
LEGISLAT
URE
ELECTIO
N
SYSTEM
 UNION
JUDICIAR
Y:
SUPREME
COURT AT PRESENT THERE ARE 31 MEMBERS
 THE FUNCTIONS OF THE JUDICIARY

FUNCTIO
NS OF
SUPREME
COURT
STATE EXECUTIVE: GOVERNOR,CM, STATE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
73RD AMENDMENT ACT 74TH AMENDMENT ACT
RURAL
GOVERNANCE:
PANCHAYATI RAJ
INSTITUTIONS(PRIs):
THREE TIER
SYSTEM)
MAIN COMMITTEES INVOLVED IN EVOLUTION OF PRIs
 GRAM
SABHA
AND GRAM
PANCHAYA
T
DIFFEREN
CE
PANCHAYATI RAJ : FIRST STATE TO INTRODUCE

RAJASTHAN, 1959.

NAGAUR
FUNCTION
S OF
PANCHAYA PRIs

TI RAJ
INSTITUTI
ONS
FEATURE
S OF 73RD
AND 74TH
AMENDM
ENT ACT
IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS
42ND AMENDMENT ACT (1976) – MINI CONSTITUTION

44TH AMENDMENT ACT (1978) – RIGHT TO PROPERTY WAS SHIFTED FROM FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

52ND AMENDMENT ACT (1952) – ANTI DEFECTION ACT

61ST AMENDMENT ACT (1988) – RIGHT TO VOTE AFTER 18YEARS OF AGE

73RD AMENDMENT ACT (1992) – PRIs

74TH AMENDMENT ACT (1992) – NAGARPALIKA

84TH AMENDMENT ACT (2000) – 3 NEW STATES WERE CREATED : CHATTISGARH, JHARKHAND AND UTTARANCHAL

86TH AMENDMENT ACT(2002) - Free and obligatory education for the children between 6 to 14 was made as a fundamental right

92nd AMENDMENT ACT (2005) – 4 TRIBAL LANGUAGE GOT OFFICIAL STATUS : BORO, MAITHILI, SANTHALI AND DOGRI

95TH AMENDMENT ACT (2010) - stretched the time of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and
the State Legislative Assemblies for an additional period of ten years. The time period is now extended up to 26 January 2020

100TH AMENDMENT ACT (2015) - sanctioned the land limit agreement between India and Bangladesh.

101TH AMENDMENT ACT (2016) – INTRODUCTION OF GST

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