How much you know about Indian Constitution – Some unknown Facts ?

1-   It is the longest written constitution having 448 Articles , 12 Schedules and 94 amendments.

2-   The committee for drafting the constitution was established on 27^th Aug, 1947 and Dr. B.R.Ambedkar was appointed the chairman of the drafting committee and committee having six members as Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant, K M Munshi, A.K.Iyer, N.Gopalswami Ayengar, B.L.Mitter, Md. Saadullah and D P Khaitan and advisor was Sir B.N.Rau.

3-   The drafting committee had handwritten and calligraphed the Indian constitution in Hindi as well as English. The original copies are kept at library of Indian Parliament. Each page beautified and decorated by Shantiniketan artists like Beohar Rammanohar Sinha and Nandalal Bose.

4-   On 24^th Of January, 1950 – 284 members of constituent assembly signed the document and it was raining outside.  The raining was treated as Good Omen.

5-   The total time taken to prepare the draft to approval of Indian constitution was 2 years, 11 Months and 18 days.

6-   On 26^th Jan,1950 – The national emblem accepted by the Indian Government.

Many principles were borrowed from other constitutions i.e. Parliamentary structure from Britain , Separation of powers from USA, Federal Government from CANADA etc.

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