Indian parliament: innovations, reforms and development
- Calcutta Minerva Associates 1976
- 144 p. : ill.
IN THE LAST two decades, many legislatures in the world, fearing their eclipse by the rapidly increasing executive power, have been concerned with the "on-going modernization efforts" to re invigorate themselves so as to be able to exercise adequate checks on the executive. There has been a serious re-appraisal of their operations, procedures and structures in the context of the new roles they were expected to play in their respective societies. has resulted in the adoption of various devices to improve the performance of their legislative functions to make them more effective as "control-mechanism". The Indian Parliament has also adopted various innovations to accomplish its role as an organ of legislative control and direction. To an extent how ever, the impact of such reform measures on the working of Indian Parliamentary system has somewhat remained under studied.