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Chapter-4

Executive
Revision Notes
1. The legislature and the executive are interdependent in a parliamentary system.
2. In a democracy, the Government is divided into three organs:(a) The
Legislative(b) The Executive(c) The Judiciary
3. The word executive means a body of persons that looks after the implementation
of rules and regulations in actual practice. In the case of Indian government, one
body may take policy decisions and decide about rules and regulations, while the
other one would be in charge of implementing those rules. The organ of
government that primarily looks after the function of implementation and
administration is called the Executive.
4. The legislature frames the laws and the executive enforces them to run the
administration.
5. In a presidential system, the president is the Head of state as well as head of
government. In this system the office of president is very powerful, both in theory
and practice. Countries with such a system include the United States, Brazil and
most nations in Latin America.
6. In such a manner, the legislature controls the executive and in turn it is controlled
by the executive.
7. Different types of executives are Parliamentary, Semi-Presidential, Presidential,
Monarchical or Ceremonial, etc.
8. A distinction can be made between the parliamentary and the presidential
executives. In a parliamentary system, the real head of executive is the Prime
Minister and the President is the nominal head.
9. The Prime Minister is assisted by the Council of Ministers and advises the
President.
10. Parliamentary form has many mechanism that ensure that the executive
will be answerable to and controlled by the legislature or people's
representatives. So the Constitution adopted the parliamentary system of
executive for the government both at the national and state level.
11. The President enjoys the right to be informed of all important matters and
functioning of the council of ministers.
12. The President has veto power by which he can withhold or refuse to give
assent to Bills passed by the Parliament. Every bill passed by the Parliament
goes to the President for his assent before it becomes a law.
13. The Vice President is the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha and acts for
the President when the office of the President falls vacant.
14. The council of minister is responsible collectively to the house of the
people and it shall not exceed 15% of total number of members of the house of
the people.
15. The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha. This
provision means that a Ministry which loses confidence of the Lok Sabha is
obliged to resign.
16. The President appoints the Prime Minister who is the leader of the majority
party in the Lok Sabha. The Prime Minister acts as a link between the Council of
Ministers on the one hand and the President as well as the Parliament on the
other.
17. The executive, thus, includes the Prime Minister, the ministers and large
administrative machinery.
18. The bureaucrats implement the decisions of ministers.
19. These bureaucrats are skilled and trained officers who work as a
permanent employees of the government and assist the government in
formulating and implementing the policies.

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