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Emergency Powers

The “Emergency powers” has been listed in part eighteen of the Indian constitution which states the imposition of emergency during any threat to the security of the country. This has been imposed on all Indian citizens respectively.

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The “emergency powers” have been provided to the “President of India” where any type of threat is provided to the securities of the county. The harm that will be given to the Indian states then the president will be imposing the emergency in the Indian constitution. This has been formulated with the condition of war or other rebellion armed with aggression. Moreover, these powers have been provided to the top head to make an emergency decision at the time of sudden emergency. These “emergency powers” have been provided in the Indian Constitution as the three emergencies and are “National emergency”, “Financial Emergency”, and the “Failure of constitutional machinery in states”. 

Emergency powers

The power that has been mentioned in the “Indian Constitution” has been controlled by the President of India. It has been implemented under three conditions. This includes, “National emergency”, an emergency related to the “failure of constitutional machinery in the state” and “Financial emergency”. When the country gets any threats from the external parties such as during war, social aggression, or observes any financial threats and becomes unable to impart the constitutional provisions, these three types of emergency power have been implemented.All the individuals in the country have been noted that the emergency powers in the constitution are a very important part of the Indian constitution. This is because it has helped the nation to also build the country in a situation of harm and also its people from outsiders harm and war. 

Emergency powers

In Article 256, the emergency power implementation criteria have been described that denoting, “Failure of Constitutional Machinery in-State” can be applied when the government cannot attempt the constitutional provision. Moreover, Article 352 and Article 360 stated the conditions of implementing “national emergency” and “Financial emergency”. However, in the history of India, it has been seen that many times these provisions have been misused for the nation.

Various types of emergency powers constitution

The emergency provisions are of various types such as those imposing the rule of the president of that which imposes financial emergency. These are meant to be used in the situation of contingency in India and are to be used in certain cases that are meant to be very vital. The emergency power acts have been instituted in part eighteen of the Indian constitution and have been used already in India to maintain the situation of contingency. The emergency power acts, however, cannot be just invoked at the will of the person and there is a requirement of the cabinet permission before it can be invoked. It must be also noted that rather emergency provisions are very unique to the constitution of India and that these are not to be found in any other constitution of the world. This fact itself makes the emergency provisions of India very unique on its own. The emergency powers in the constitution are a rather very important part of the Indian constitution because it has helped the nation to also build the country in the situation of harm. This is so because a number of critical situations in the country have been able to be taken care of by the emergency provisions of the constitution itself. These factors make the emergency provisions of India one of the most unique as well as the most amazing features in the constitution to be found. This is also unique and not to be found in the constitution of any other nation.

Conclusion

It can be concluded that the “Emergency powers” have been provided to run in an emergency occurrence respectively to war and other threatening situations to the country. This power has been provided to the President to execute the power at the time of emergency arises. In the Indian constitution, there have been various emergency powers that have been used to save the threat situation to the Indian security; this role has been implemented for the safety and preservation of the country. Moreover, this assignment has analyzed the powers that will be giving a clear idea about the powers where they will be enforced and due to the condition.

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