The National Commission
to Review the Working of the Constitution, headed by Shri Justice
M.N. Venkatachalaiah, has submitted its final report recently.
The Commission has made various
recommendations pertaining to (I) Fundamental Rights, Directive
Principles and Fundamental Duties; (ii) Electoral Processes and
Political Parties; (iii) Parliament and State Legislatures; (iv)
Executive and Public Administration; (v) The Judiciary; (vi) Union-State
Relations; (vii) Decentralization and Devolution; and (viii) Pace
of Socio-Economic Change and Development. The recommendations
involve amendments to the Constitution, legislative measures and
executive action. Action on the recommendations lies with the
Ministries/Departments of the Government of India, which are administratively
concerned with the subject matter of the recommendations.
The report has been signed by
all the Members including Chairperson. However, S/Shri Justice
B.P. Jeevan Reddy, Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap, C. R. Irani and Smt.
Sumitra G. Kulkarni have recorded separate notes on certain issues
which inter alia, relate to superior judiciary, liability of the
States in Torts, fundamental rights, directive principles, fundamental
duties, electoral reforms and citizenship.
This information was given by
the Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Shri Arun
Jaitley in a written reply to a question from Shri R.P. Goenka
in the Rajya Sabha today.
