Misfeasance in public office – a remedy Necessity for a law providing for confiscation of illegally acquired assets of public servants Enactment of a Public Interest Disclosure Act Enactment of a Freedom of Information Act Necessity for enacting a Lok Pal Bill in addition to the Central Vigilance Commission Act Strengthening
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Jawaharlal Nehru born on 14th November 1889 in Allahabad‚ was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian Independence Movement under Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in office in 1964. Nehru is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state; a sovereign‚ socialist‚ secular‚ and democratic republic. A
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the Parliament. The Vice President would ascend to the Presidency upon the death‚ resignation‚ impeachment‚ or other situations leading to the vacancy in the Office of President. The normal function of the Vice President is to serve as theChairman of the Rajya Sabha. The current Vice President of India is Hamid Ansari‚ since 11 August 2007‚ and re-elected on 7 August 2012 with the appointment by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee. ------------------------------------------------- [edit]Powers and duties
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Universal Adult Franchise and The Methods of Representation MODULE - 4 Democracy at Work 17 UNIVERSAL ADULT FRANCHISE AND THE METHODS OF REPRESENTATION Notes have studied opening of the to the I n an earlier lesson‚ youthe people of that the What dowords wordsPreambleThese Indian Constitution are: “We‚ India”. these signify? words mean that the ultimate authority resides in the people themselves. People exercise authority through the representatives elected by them. These representatives conduct
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became the nation ’s dominant political party‚ led by the Nehru-Gandhi family for the most part; major challenges for party leadership have only recently formed. In the 2009 general elections‚ the Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha‚ with 206 of its candidates getting elected to the 543-member house. Consequently‚ it along with a coalition of allies called the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)‚ was able to gain a majority and form the government. Contents [hide] * 1 History
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2013 when the Rajya Sabha passed the Sexual Harassment at the Workplace (Prevention‚ Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2012. The Lok Sabha had cleared it on September 3‚ 2012 with practically no debate‚ as members were more interested in the so-called Coalgate scam than an issue that affects the lives of millions of women. In one way‚ I suppose we should be grateful that the law passed without too much discussion given the tone of the discussion in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha around the Criminal
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successful‚ but others failed. The Kisan Sabha movement started in Bihar under the leadership of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati who had formed in 1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) in order to mobilise peasant grievances against the zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights. Gradually the peasant movement intensified and spread across the rest of India. All these radical developments on the peasant front culminated in the formation of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) at the Lucknow session of the
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reservation of women in India and also make a SWOT analysis of the position of women in India at present. “Representation” of all citizens‚ however it may be defined is crucial for effective democratic governance. However in india ‚ the representation in Lok Sabha is varying between 4 % to 8 % after the independence that is very much less as compared with worldwide democratic countries. enhancing the participation of women within democracies is seen as central to improving governance (World Bank‚ 2002)
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states the BJP vote went up by over 20%. Gujarat represents the BJP’s most spectacular showing. Electoral Performance: In 1967‚ the party gave its full support to the SVD ministry in U.P headed by Charan Singh and it had 98 members in the Vidhan Sabha. In 1977‚ with 98 of its men in parliament under the Janata banner it received only three cabinet ministership. In 1980 the party backed Jagajivan Ramand in 1983 with their 18 members in the Karnataka legislature the BJP supported R.K. Hegde
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