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.

Recent articles in The Parliamentarian (2018-2021)

• 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, 24 -29 November 2019

Further Information:

• IPU – India 
• Commonwealth Secretariat 
• UN Data