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Wish you all a happy republic day!!!!! The Constitution of India was adopted on 26th November 1949 and came into effect from 26th January 1950. The Independence Day celebrates Freedom from british rule but the exact rules and laws came into existence from Republic Day,it confirmed that India was no longer a British Dominion and a Free Country run by its own people. Dr B.R Ambedkar was the chairman of the drafting committee of the Constitution  The Assembly met, in sessions open to public, for 166 days, spread over a period of 2 years, 11 months and 18 days before adopting the Constitution. After many deliberations and some modifications, the 308 members of the Assembly signed two hand-written copies of the document (one each in Hindi and English) on 24 January 1950. finally India became Republic on 26th Jan 1950

Hi Friends, Detailed and correct information regarding constitution of India is available in the given below website http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/welcome.html For online reference you can use it and books like D.D Basu,Laxmikant and special issue of Wizard can be used

With the coming of the Janata Party into power at the Centre in 1977, a serious view was taken of the weaknesses in the functioning of Panchayati Raj. It was decided to appoint a high-level committee under the chairmanship of Ashok mehta to examine and suggest measures to strengthen PRIs(Panchayati Raj Institutions). The Committee had to evolve an effective decentralised system of development for PRIs.  They made the following recommendations . • The district is a viable administrative unit for which planning, co-ordination and resource allocation are feasible and technical expertise available, • PRIs as a two-tier system, with Mandal Panchayat at the base and Zilla Parishad at the top, • the PRIs are capable of planning for themselves with the resources available to them, • district planning should take care of the urban-rural continuum, • representation of SCs and STs in the election to PRIs on the basis of their population, • four-year term of PRIs, • participation of ...

The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee was a committee appointed by the Government of India in January 1957 to examine the working of the Community Development Programme(1952) The Chairman of this committee was Balwantrai G Mehta . The committee submitted its report in November 1957 and recommended the establishment of the scheme of 'democratic decentralisation' which finally came to be known as Panchayati Raj . Establishment of a 3-tier Panchayati Raj system-Gram Panchayat at the village level, Panchayat Samiti at the block level, and Zila Parishad at the district level. The village Panchayat should be constituted with directly elected representatives, whereas the Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad should be constituted with indirectly elected members. All planning and developmental activities should be entrusted to these bodies. The Panchayat Samiti should be the executive body while the Zila Parishad should be the advisory, coordinating and supervisory body. The District ...