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Making of the Constitution And Drafting Committee

The idea of a Constitutional Assembly for India was given for the first time by MN Roy in 1934. Later in 1935, Congress also demanded a Constituional Assambly to frame the Constitutional. August offer 1940,Cripps Mission 1942,had a provision of Constitutional Assambly. On the recommendation of Cabinet Mission Plan , a Constituent Assembly was set-up in November,1946.
The Constitution Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on 9th December, 1946 in the Constitution Hall. which is known as Central Hall of Parliament House. The first meeting was held on 9th December, 1946 with Sachidanand Sinha, as the provisional President. On 11th December ,1946 Dr Rajendra Prasad was elected  as the permanent President of the Constituent Assembly.

TIME Taken : The Constituent Assembly took almost 3 year (2 years, eleven months and eighteen days ) to make its historical task of drafting the Constitution for Independent India. During this time, it held eleven sessions covering a total of 165 days. Of these , 114 days were spent on the consideration of the Draft Constitution.
 

Drafting Committee

On 29th August , 1947, the Constituent Assembly set-up a Drafting Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar to prepare a Draft Constitution for India. This Assembly moved ,discussed and disposed of a many as 2473 Amendments out of a total of 7635 tabled.
    The Constitution of India was adopted on 26th November, 1949 and the honourable members appended their Signatures to it on that. In all ,284 members signed this Constitution.

Members of Drafting Committee

  • Chairman : Dr BR Ambedkar

  • Members : Alladi Krishnaswamy Ayyar, N Gopalaswami Ayyangar, Dr KM Munshi, Syed Mohammad Saadullah, N Madhava Rau (replaced BL Mitter ), TT Krishnamachari (replaced  DP Khaitan).

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