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■ MAJOR COMMITTEES OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

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◇ Union Powers Committee - Jawaharlal Nehru

◇ Union Constitution Committee -Jawaharlal Nehru

◇ Provincial Constitution Committee -Sardar Patel

◇ Drafting Committee - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

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■ MINOR COMMITTEE

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◇ Finance and Staff Committee - Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

◇ Credentials Committee - Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar.

◇ House Committee - B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya.

◇ Order of Business Committee - Dr. K.M. Munshi.

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■ DRAFTING COMMITTEE

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Among all the committees of the Constituent Assembly, the most important committee was the Drafting Committee set up on August 29, 1947.

This consisted of seven members. They were:

◇ Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Chairman)

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■ MINOR COMMITTEE
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◇ Finance and Staff Committee - Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
◇ Credentials Committee - Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar.
◇ House Committee - B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya.
◇ Order of Business Committee - Dr. K.M. Munshi.
◇ Ad-hoc Committee on the National Flag - Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
◇ Committee on the Functions of the Constituent Assembly - G.V. Mavalankar.
◇ Ad-hoc Committee on the Supreme Court - S. Varadachari (Not an Assembly Member).
◇ Committee on Chief Commissioners’ Provinces - B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya.
◇ Expert Committee on the Financial Provisions of the Union Constitution -Nalini Ranjan Sarkar (Not an Assembly Member).
◇ Linguistic Provinces Commission - S.K. Dar (Not an Assembly Member).
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■ MAJOR COMMITTEES OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
#Constituentassembly
◇ Union Powers Committee - Jawaharlal Nehru
◇ Union Constitution Committee -Jawaharlal Nehru
◇ Provincial Constitution Committee -Sardar Patel
◇ Drafting Committee - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
◇ Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights, Minorities and Tribal and Excluded Areas - Sardar Patel.
□ This committee had the following five sub- committees :-
• Fundamental Rights Sub-Committee - J.B. Kripalani
• Minorities Sub-Committee - H.C. Mukherjee
• North-East Frontier Tribal Areas and Assam Excluded & Partially Excluded Areas Sub-Committee - Gopinath Bardoloi
• Excluded and Partially Excluded Areas (other than those in Assam) Sub-Committee - A.V. Thakkar
• North-West Frontier Tribal Areas Sub-Committee.
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■ CHANGES BY THE INDEPENDENT ACT

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◇ On April 28, 1947, representatives of the six states were part of the Assembly. After the acceptance of the Mountbatten Plan of June 3, 1947, for the partition of the country, the
representatives of most of the other
princely states took their seats in the Assembly.
◇ The Indian Independence Act of 1947 made the following three changes in the position of the Assembly:
• The Assembly was made a fully sovereign body, which could frame any Constitution it pleased.
The act empowered the Assembly to abrogate or alter any law made by the British Parliament in relation to India.
• The Assembly also became a legislative body. In other words, two separate functions were assigned to the Assembly, that is,
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■ OBJECTIVE RESOLUTION
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◇ On December 13, 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru moved the historic ‘Objective Resolution’ in the Assembly. It laid down fundamentals and philosophy of the constitutional structure.
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◇ “This Constituent Assembly declares its firm and solemn resolve to proclaim India as an Independent, Sovereign, Republic and to draw up for her future governance a Constitution:
◇ Wherein the territories that now comprise British India,
the territories that now form the Indian States and such other parts of India as are outside India and the States as well as other territories as are willing to be constitut -ed into the independent sovereign India, shall be a Union of them all .
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Our #RepublicDay #TwitterTakeover with @glorious_gluten has begun!

For the next hour, she will be discussing the relationship between the #police, #State and the #law.

Join the conversation and send us your questions in the comments section.
On #26January, 2021, the Indian republic completes 71 years since its formation; against the background of a global pandemic that has starkly exposed its fault lines. | @glorious_gluten
The 299 member #ConstituentAssembly was unique for there were 15 women (including a #Dalit woman Dakshini Velayudhan) who were voted to be a part of the
Committee and make their contribution to the building of the republic. #RepublicDay | @glorious_gluten
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How was the #Constitution of India drafted?
This #RepublicDay, we revisit @epw_in articles that look at the debates and discussions involved in creating the framework for a democratic India. #26January
The Indian state was an amalgamation of separate, and distinct identities. Aditya Nigam writes that the Constituent Assembly provided ways for states to assert their selfhood within a united India, and thus included different regions in "nation forming." bit.ly/2QR8mvT
Vivek Prahladan writes that it was through B R Ambedkar's sustained efforts in the framing of the Constitution that the idea of democracy in India was made inextricable from policies of affirmative action. #RepublicDay bit.ly/2KW1lX3
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Joseph Farrell, an Election Monitor in Venezuela as well as a member of the Board of the #UK Centre for Investigative Journalism & an associate of #WikiLeaks.
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