Parliament of India

Joined the Commonwealth: 15 August 1947  

Unicameral/Bicameral: Bicameral – Lok Sabha (543), Rajya Sabha (245)  

Parliament/Legislature website: Parliament of India 

Standing Orders: Rajya Sabha

Lok Sabha

Committees:

Number of Departmental/Ministry Oversight Committees:

There are 24 Departmental/Ministry oversight Committees called Departmentally Related Standing Committees (DRSCs). These are joint Committees. Each Committee consist of 31 members, 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha.

CPA Blogs

• From COP26 to COP27: A review of climate legislation in 2022

Recent articles in The Parliamentarian (2018 to present)

• The Parliamentarian 2023 Issue Two - India Parliamentary Report: India opens new Parliament building
• The Parliamentarian 2022 Issue One - 'Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in India' by Hon. Om Birla, MP, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Parliament of India
• The Parliamentarian 2021 Issue Two - 'India and the Commonwealth: Looking into the future to Connect, Innovate and Transform' by Shri Hon. Om Birla, Speaker of Lok Sabha
• The Parliamentarian 2020 Issue Four - 'Delivering a Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming' - Shri N. K. Premachandran, MP (Lok Sabha)
• The Parliamentarian 2020 Issue Four - 'Parliament and Foreign Policy: An Indian Perspective' - Rup Narayan Das - former Joint Secretary in the Lok Sabha Secretariat and Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Social Science Research
  
• The Parliamentarian 2020 Issue Three - 'UN at 75 article - United Nations and its impact in Commonwealth countries: The perspective from India' - Shri Om Birla, Speaker of Lok Sabha and CPA India Region Chairperson
• The Parliamentarian 2020 Issue Three - 'Decriminalising the Electoral System: Reforms by the Judiciary' - Vivek Agnihotri, former Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha, Parliament of India
  
• The Parliamentarian 2020 Issue Two - Literary terms used in Parliament and Legislation from the India Parliament's perspective - Part One, Part Two and Part Three - Ravindra Garimella
  
• The Parliamentarian 2019 Issue Two - 'The Functioning of Democratic Institutions in India' - Ravindra Garimella
  
• The Parliamentarian 2018 Issue Four - 'The 3D’s in Indian Political Thought' - Professor (Dr.) Sugata Bose, MP, Member, Standing Committee on External Affairs
  
• The Parliamentarian 2018 Issue Two - Post-CHOGM 2018: Towards a Common Future: A View from India - Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy, MP (Lok Sabha)
• The Parliamentarian 2018 Issue One - 'Whips in India Parliament' - Ravindra Garimella

Recent Involvement in CPA Programmes:

• LISTEN | Interview with Anurag Sharma, Member of the Lok Sabha for Jhansi constituency, Uttar Pradesh, on Parliamentary Conversations in the Commonwealth, a CPA podcast
• 10th Commonwealth Youth Parliament in Delhi, 24 -29 November 2019

Further Information

• IPU – India 
• Commonwealth Secretariat 
• UN Data