Key Notes on Government of India

The government of India incorporates three main organs: legislative, judiciary, and executive. India is considered a secular, democratic, socialist, and sovereign country with a form of parliamentary government. The government of India consists of federal structures with unitary features such as a strong centre, a unified and single judiciary, a unitary in every emergency, single citizenship, and a single constitution for the country’s states and union territories. Narendra Modi is the present Prime Minister of independent India and the advisor to President Ram Nath Kovind. The power of the president is generally executed directly on the country and its states or even by the officers who are sob-ordinate to him or her. 

Government of India: Overview

The government of India has a federal structure having unitary features with the parliamentary form that makes India a socialist, democratic, sovereign, secular, and republican country. The government of India consists of a structure that includes ministers’ councils where the Prime Minister is the head and the advisor of the country’s President. The President is the head member of the Indian constitution. Presently, Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India, Ram Nath Kovind is the President, and Venkaiah Naidu is the Vice-President and the Rajya Sabha’s chairperson. 

Three main organs of the government of India

The government of India comprises three main branches: “the legislative”, “the judiciary”, and “the executive”. President is considered the head of the state and the executive branch’s head person. Dr Sachidananad Sinha was India’s first president and later Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected as president by the country’s constituent assembly. Presently, the president of the government of India is Ram Nath Kovind and his sub-ordinate is Venkaiah Naidu, the chairman and vice-president of India. India’s constitution was generally framed by its constituent assembly and established by provincial assembly’s members who are elected by the citizens of India. 

The government of India acts

The British parliament passed and regulated the succession measures of the government of India Acts, between the years 1773 and 1935. First “several Indian acts” were passed in the years “1773, 1780,1784,1786,1793, and 1830” and these acts were mainly known as the Acts of East India Company. In the year 1919, the government of India Act had established a legislative bicameral parliament for entire British India. In the year 1935, the parliament of Britain passed the government of India act, which came into effect in the year 1937. According to the report of the Committee of Joint Select, which was led by Sir Lord Linlithgow, the two major houses of the parliament of British India were set up. The act mainly aimed at its provinces, to prepare all Indians for creating an “effective and responsible government of India” by the diarchy system. 

The Government of India act of 1935

The government of India Act 1935, has generally created two main levels of the “federation of India” such as the central parliament and executive and the princely states and provinces under it. 

• The introduction and abolition of the providential diarchy are considered the centre of the act. 
• Introduction and abolition of the council of India are determined as one of the major advisory bodies in the place of diarchy. 
• The bicameral legislature was introduced during the government of India act of 1935, which made vital changes that the state secretary will be paid from the exchequer of the British from that time onwards. 

Conclusion 

The Government of India Act 1935 was written in a legal style and was organized in ten schedules and eleven parts, which are considered the longest legislation pieces that the British parliament passed. The three main branches of the government of India consist of Bureaucrats, “council of ministers’ ‘, union cabinet, president, governor-general, prime minister of India, Rajya and Lok Sabha, supreme and high court, and so on. The government of India Act has some key characteristics such as it has established a federal court, the governor of the country, emergency and critical powers. The main feature of the government of India act is to provide separate electorates only to Sikhs and Muslims, and not to the depressed classes.