12th September, 2002
Ministry of Law & Justice  


IMPLEMENTATION OF CONSTITUTION REVIEW COMMISSION REPORT


The Union Law Ministry has forwarded report of the National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution (NCRWC) to all Ministries and Departments for examination and processing of the recommendations relating to them.

The Commission has made 58 recommendations involving amendments to the Constitution of India, 86 relating to legislative measures and the rest executive action.

The recommendations covered broadly, fundamental rights, directive principles and fundamental duties, electoral processes and political parties, parliament and state legislatures, executive and public administration, the judiciary, Union-State relations, decentralization and devolution and pace of socio-economic change and development.

The report of the Commission has already been made public by putting the same on internet. It is available for sale with the Controller of Publications.

The NCRWC was set up by the Government on February 2, 2000, under the chairmanship of Shri Justice M.N. Venkatachalaiah, a retired Chief Justice of India. The Commission submitted its report to the Government on March 31, 2002.