Indian polity and governance
AADHAR Bill: Complete analysis
Date: March 16, 2016
The Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Aadhaar Bill that aims to ensure targeted services to intended beneficiaries by assigning them unique identity numbers. The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016 is be presented in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Incidentally, this is last working day of first half of ...
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act:The Journey of a Decade
Date: February 01, 2016
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
The Mandate of the Act and Achievements
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) completes ten years of implementation on 2nd February 2016. The achievements of a decade are a cau...
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Right to Legal Aid
Date: April 17, 2015
Right to Legal Aid: A Constitutional Commitment
Charles de Montesquieu said that; "In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law." The protection of law to poo...
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Citizenship and related issues
Date: January 19, 2015
Citizenship
Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law of a state that gives the person (called a citizen), the rights and the duties of citizenship. the Indian Constotution provides citizenship under followinfg articles-
Art.5 Citizenshi...
Read MoreReservation as a welfare Measure
Date: January 04, 2015
Reservation as a welfare Measure
Reservation is an affirmative action taken by the state to remove persistent and continuous discrimination on a particular segment of the society.
Its aims to provide access to equal opportunities and grants full participation in the gover...
Read MoreINDIA AND ITS TERRITORY
Date: January 04, 2015
INDIA AND ITS TERRITORY
Part I of Indian constitution provides provisions related with Union and its termites, from Art. 1 to 4. India is also known as a country of destructible states and indestructible union. According to Art. 1 (1) India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.
(2) The states and the territories there o...
Read MoreNational Judicial Appointments Commission Bill
Date: January 04, 2015
National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill
The Constitution (121st Amendment) Bill, 2014
NJAC is a proposed constitutional body responsible for the appointment and transfer of judges to the...
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Fundamental Rights and related issues
Date: December 29, 2014
Fundamental Rights
Background – Since days of independence the demand for basic rights was a major component of freedom fighters. The home rule movement of Ani Basent demanded that type of monarchy in which peoples have freedom of speech and expr...
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Ordinance making power of President
Date: December 28, 2014
Ordinance making powers of President
Historically The Government of India Act, 1935 under Section 42 and 43 authorises the Governor General to promulgate Ordinances ‘if circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action’.
Ordinances are issued by the Presi...
Read MoreLok Adalat
Date: December 13, 2014
Lok Adalat
Lok Adalat is a system of alternative dispute resolution developed in India. It roughly means “People’s court”.
The idea of Lok Adalat was mainly advocated by Justice P.N. Bhagwati, a former Chief Justice of India.
Lok Adalat is a non-adversarial syst...
Preamble: the soul of our constution
Date: December 09, 2014
Preamble; The soul of constitution
We, the people of India...
Read MoreMaking of Indian constitution
Date: December 09, 2014
Important points regarding making of constitution
- Constituent Assembly had been elected firstly, for undivided India. Its first sitting was held on December 9, 1946 and re-assembled as Constituent Assembly for divided India on 14 August 1947.
- Its members elected by indirect ... Read More