separation of powers
SEPARATION
OF
POWERS IN
INDIA
Name: Navya Chopra
Roll no.: 42
Section: B
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I am glad to present the project on “The Separation of Powers in India”.
This project would not have been completed without the support of my family and friends who encouraged and challenged me throughout. Who shared and exchanged ideas for the completion of the project. They never accepted less than my best effort.
I would also like to acknowledge and extend my heartfelt gratitude to my teacher Mr. Subradipta Sarkar for his guidance throughout.
Also most specially to my parents, what I owe them for their encouragement and whose patient love enabled me to collect and write the information.
INDEX
1. Introduction
2. Legislative
The President
The Rajya Sabha
The Lok Sabha
3. Executive
The President
The Vice President
The Council of Ministers
The Governor
The Attorney General of India
4. Judiciary
The Supreme Court
High Courts
5. Conclusion
6. Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
The separation of powers is a constitutional principle that deals with the mutual relations among the three organs of the government, namely, legislature, executive and judiciary. The legislative organ of the state makes laws, the executive enforces them and the judiciary applies them to the specific cases arising out of the breach of law.1
Each organ while performing its activities tends to interfere in the sphere of working of another functionary because a strict demarcation of functions is not possible in their dealings with the general public. Thus, even when acting in ambit of their own power, overlapping functions tend to appear amongst these organs. With the separation of powers, it is more accurate to speak of a system of checks and
OF
POWERS IN
INDIA
Name: Navya Chopra
Roll no.: 42
Section: B
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I am glad to present the project on “The Separation of Powers in India”.
This project would not have been completed without the support of my family and friends who encouraged and challenged me throughout. Who shared and exchanged ideas for the completion of the project. They never accepted less than my best effort.
I would also like to acknowledge and extend my heartfelt gratitude to my teacher Mr. Subradipta Sarkar for his guidance throughout.
Also most specially to my parents, what I owe them for their encouragement and whose patient love enabled me to collect and write the information.
INDEX
1. Introduction
2. Legislative
The President
The Rajya Sabha
The Lok Sabha
3. Executive
The President
The Vice President
The Council of Ministers
The Governor
The Attorney General of India
4. Judiciary
The Supreme Court
High Courts
5. Conclusion
6. Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
The separation of powers is a constitutional principle that deals with the mutual relations among the three organs of the government, namely, legislature, executive and judiciary. The legislative organ of the state makes laws, the executive enforces them and the judiciary applies them to the specific cases arising out of the breach of law.1
Each organ while performing its activities tends to interfere in the sphere of working of another functionary because a strict demarcation of functions is not possible in their dealings with the general public. Thus, even when acting in ambit of their own power, overlapping functions tend to appear amongst these organs. With the separation of powers, it is more accurate to speak of a system of checks and