USEFUL FACTS FOR TNPSC EXAM:
The present constitution of India was framed by the
Constitution Assembly of India setup under Cabinet Mission Plan of May 16,
1946.
Composition of Constituent Assembly:-
- The Constituent
Assembly consisted of 389 members, of which 296 were elected by he elected
members of the Provincial Legislative Assemblies while 93 members were
nominated by the Princely States. To these were to be added a
representative each from the four Chief Commissioners Provinces of Delhi,
Ajmer-Marwar, Coorg and British Baluchistan.
- Each
Province and each Indian State or group of States were allotted the total
number of seas proportional to their respective population roughly in the
ration of one to a million.
- B N Rao
was appointed the Constitutional Advisor of the Assembly.
- The first
meeting of the Constituent Assembly took place of Dec 9, 1946 with Dr.
Sachidanand Sinha as its interim President. Dr. Rajendra Prasad was
elected as its President n Dec 11, 1947.
- The
Assembly framing the Constitution.had 13 Committees.
- The
all-important Drafting Committee, which bore the responsibility of
drafting the Constitutional document during the recess of the Constitutent
Assembly, from July 1947 to September 1948, was formed on August 29, 1947.
Its members were:
1. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
2. N. Gopalaswami Ayyar
3. K.M. Munshi
4. Syyed Mohd. Saadulla
5. N.Madhav Rao
6. D.P.Khaitan (T Krishnamachari, after
Kahitan’s Death in 1948)
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It was
finally passed and accepted on Nov 26, 1949. The session of the Assembly was
held on Jan 24, 1950, which unanimously elected Dr, Rajendra Prasad as the
President of India. In all the 284 members of the Assembly signed the official
copies of the Indian Constitution which came into effect on Jan 26, 1950, known
and celebrated as the Republic Day of India.
