The Essential Functions of the Parliament of India

The Essential Functions of the Parliament of India

There are many other salient functions of the Parliament of India such as the following:

·       Parliament of India serves as the highest deliberative body in the nation.

·       It engages in the discussion of varied issues having national and international significance.

·       The Indian Parliament gives assent to all the three kinds of Emergency which are National Emergency, State Emergency and Financial Emergency which are proclaimed by the President of India.

·       The Parliament can also make or remove the state legislative councils on the advice of the concerned state legislative assembly.

·       The Parliament also performs the function of increasing or decreasing the area, alter the boundaries or rename the states of Union of India.

·       The Parliament of India is also responsible for regulating the jurisdiction and organization of the High Courts and Supreme Court of India and also owns the power of establishing one common high court for two or more states of India.

·       The system of the Parliament of India puts together the legislative and the executive organs of the state as much as the executive power is exercised by a group of Members of the Legislature who control a majority in the Lok Sabha.

·       To come up in a more specified manner the government functions through different ministries under the control of different Ministers. The Indian Parliament has provisions for the Ministers and considers them accountable to the elected representatives of the people. The Ministers could be Member of either of the two Houses of the Parliament. The true implementation of the policies of the government as determined by the Parliament is carried out by the bureaucracy supervised by a Secretary of the Department.

·       The Parliament has provisions for the forum by way of which it is shielded that the Cabinet stays in power only as long as it possesses majority support in the Lok Sabha which consists elected representatives of the people. It is one of the most vital and essential duties of the Parliament to bring about consultations, deliberations and reproving analysis of the functions of the government departments.

·       The discussions safeguards that the flaws in terms of performance are brought to notice of the Ministers and through them the collective executive machinery functions in a good manner.

·       The existence of opposition is also necessary as it certainly ensures that the entire population of the country gets to know about the other substitute and possible thoughts.

·       The Indian Parliament is the strongest organ as far as the information about the performance of the duties and tasks of the government is concerned. The information presented in the Houses is reliable and dependent and it is obligatory for the ministers to provide information on affairs concerning government when so wanted and preferred by the members.

·       The power to amend the Constitution vests with the Parliament. It is essential for the constitutional amendments to be passed by each house by a majority of the total membership and by the two-thirds majority of members present in voting as well.

·       In some cases, amendments need ratification from half of the Legislative Assemblies of the States.

·       The Parliament of India can as well penalize a person for defamation or contempt of the House.

·       The Indian Parliament also possesses a power to form new states or make changes in the boundaries of the states which are in existence by legislation.