Role and Functions of the Parliament

The Rajya Sabha is to comprise not more than 250 members. The President appoints twelve for their knowledge or practical proficiency in such courses as science, art, and social service. The continuing seats are allotted to the several States and Union territories, roughly in percentage to their population. The total number of seats in the Rajya Sabha is currently 245, including 12 members appointed by the President. The diplomats of the Union Territories are selected in such a manner as Parliament may by law prescribe. The lowest age for membership in the  Rajya Sabha is 30 years

Role of the Parliament

The allocation in the Rajya Sabha is to be filled by the representatives of the States/Union territory. Rajya Sabha is not subject to dissolution, but as nearly as possible, one-third of its partners retire as soon as may be on the demise of every second year by the requirements made on that behalf by Parliament by law. The normal term of office of a member of Rajya Sabha is six years from the date of election or appointment.

House of the People (Lok Sabha) 

The role of Parliament in the Lok Sabha. 

As the name implies, Lok Sabha is organized by members chosen by direct election, based on the adult strength of the House envisaged by the Constitution is 552 – up to 530 members to exemplify the States, up to 20 members strengthen the Union territories. No additional members of the Anglo-Indian community are to be appointed by the President. The total discretionary membership of the House is allocated among the States in such a way that the ratio between the number of seats allotted in the State and the population of the State. The minimum age for membership in the Lok Sabha is 25 years. 

The Lok Sabha currently consists of 545 members. The Lok Sabha, unless sooner dissolved then it begins again for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting, and the passing of the period of five years regulates the dissolution of the House. However, while a Declaration of Emergency is in the making, this period may be extended by Parliament by law for an interval not surpassing one year at a period and not exceeding in any case beyond a notion that has discontinued operating.

Following the functions and powers of the Parliament, the first General Elections were held in the nation in 1952, and the functioning Lok Sabha was fulfilled for the early time on 13 May 1952. The Second Lok Sabha fulfilled for the first time on 10 May 1957, the Third Lok Sabha on 16 April 1962, the Fourth Lok Sabha on 16 March 

1967, the Fifth Lok Sabha on 19 March 1971, the Sixth Lok Sabha on 25 March 1977, the Seventh Lok Sabha on 21 January 1980, the Eighth Lok Sabha on 15 January 1985, the Ninth Lok Sabha on 18 December 1989, the Tenth Lok Sabha on 9 July 1991, the Eleventh Lok Sabha on 22 May 1996, the Twelfth Lok Sabha on 23 March 1998, the Thirteenth Lok Sabha on 20 October 1999, and Fourteenth Lok Sabha on 2 June 2004.

Functions of the Parliament  

In this, we will discuss the functions of the Parliament. The main objective of both the Houses is to frame laws for the country. Every Bill has to be authorised by both the Houses and consented to by the President before it becomes law. The topics over which Parliament can regulate are the subjects mentioned under the Union List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. Union topics are those crucial subjects allocated on an all-India basis for justifications of amenity, science, and safety. The principal Union subjects are safety, foreign affairs, currency and coinage, banking, income tax, customs, excise obligations, atomic energy, census, etc.

Apart from the wide range of subjects allocated to it in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution, even in normal times, Parliament can, under certain circumstances, assume legislative power over a subject in the sphere entirely reserved for the States.

Further, in times of big accidents when the security of India is endangered by war or extreme aggression, or an armed coup, a Proclamation of Emergency has accumulated the power to make laws for the whole or any part of the territory of India with the responsibility of matters calculated in the State List. Similarly, in the circumstance of the failure of the constitutional machinery in a State, the powers of the Legislature of that State become exercisable by or under the permission of Parliament. This apart, the Conteconstitution also grants the Parliam constituent power or the strength to initiate the same Parliament.

Besides enacting laws, the Parliament implies resolutions, gestures, questions addressed by members to Ministers, a system of committees, etc., exercises control over the country’s administration, and shelters liberties.

Conclusion

The Lok Sabha is the upper hand in finance letters between the two Houses. The House is also accountable to which the Council of Ministers is drawn from both Houses. On the other hand, the Rajya Sabha has an outstanding role in the Parliamentary creation of an All-India Service widespread to the Union and the States. The Constitution proceeds on a theory of parity of status between the two Houses in other respects. Differences in modifications to a Bill may be resolved by the Houses meeting in a joint sitting where a majority vote agrees upon differences. However, this joint sitting provision differs from Money Bills and Amendments Bills.