Question
Download Solution PDFHow much time was taken to frame the Constitution of India?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is 2 years, 11 months and 18 days.
Key Points
- The total time taken to frame the constitution was 2 years 11 months and 18 days.
- Rajendra Prasad was appointed as the permanent President during its meeting on 11th December 1946.
- Dr B. R. Ambedkar studied the constitutions of about 60 countries while drafting the constitution.
- He was chairman of the drafting committee and is recognized as the "Father of the Indian Constitution".
- After the partition of India, the number of members of the Constituent Assembly came to 299, of whom 284 were actually present on 26 November 1949 and signed the final approved Constitution of the Indian Assembly, which had been elected for undivided India.
Additional Information
- The constitutional assembly of India got the status of a sovereign body through the Indian independent act of 1947.
- An idea for a Constituent Assembly was proposed in 1934 by M. N. Roy, a pioneer of the Communist movement in India.
- The Constituent Assembly met for the first time on 9 December 1946, reassembling on 14 August 1947 as a sovereign body and successor to the British parliament's authority in India.
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