Question

distinguish between the council of minister and the cabinet​

Answer 1

ANSWER :

There is a subtle difference between the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers. The Council of Ministers is a bigger body which includes all categories of Ministers. All Ministers and Deputy Ministers are the members of the Council of Ministers.

The Cabinet is a smaller body which consists of a few important senior ministers who are in charge of separate departments. The Cabinet is described as “a wheel within a wheel”. Its the nucleus of the Council of Ministers.

The Cabinet Ministers are the senior-most members of the Council of Ministers. It is left for the Prime Minister to decide who should be included in the Cabinet. The Cabinet is usually a smaller body consisting of nearly 10 to 20 persons.

The Ministers of the State are not members of the Cabinet and they do not attend the Cabinet meetings. In special circumstances, they may be requested to be present in the Cabinet meeting and express their views.

The Cabinet holds the most important position in the Union Government. It exercises all powers on behalf of the Council of Ministers. The policy decisions are taken in the Cabinet. The Cabinet also prepaid legislative programmes for the Parliament. It serves as an ordinating body among the various departments of the Central Government.

In the words of Bagehot, the Cabinet is a “hyphen that joins, the buckle that binds the executive and the legislative departments together”. Ramsay Muir calls it as “the steering wheel of a ship of the State”.

Thus the Cabinet is the most powerful body in a parliamentary form of Government. “In the words of M.V. Pylee “the Cabinet the formulator of national policies the highest appointing authority, the arbiter of inter-departmental disputes and the supreme organ of co-ordination in the Government”.

The Cabinet, in fact, performs its varied functions through some committees. These committees are of either permanent nature like Standing Committees or they may be ad-hoc committees appointed from time to time to deal with new problems of importance.

Sometimes the Cabinet has committees like Foreign Affairs Committee, Defence Committee Economic Affairs Committee etc. These Committees are usually composed of some eminent members of the Cabinet and are headed by the Prime Minister. We shall examine functions of the Cabinet and Council of Ministers below.

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Answer 2

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Explanation:

1. Council of Ministers
2. Cabinet

1.

• Ministers are divided in three categories i.e. cabinet ministers, ministers of state, and deputy ministers.  
• It includes the cabinet ministers only hence it is a part of the council of ministers.

2.

• It does not meet, as a body, to transact government business. It has no collective functions.
• It meets, as a body, frequently and usually once in a week to deliberate and take decisions regarding the transaction of government business. Thus, it has  Collective functions.

3.

• It is vested with all powers but in theory.
• It exercises, in practice, the powers of the council of ministers and thus, acts for the latter.

4.  

• Its functions are determined by the cabinet.
• It directs the council of ministers by taking policy decisions which are binding on all ministers.

5.

• It implements the decisions taken by the cabinet.  
• It supervises the implementation of its decisions by the council of ministers.

6.  

• It is a constitutional body, dealt in detail by the Articles 74 and 75 of the Constitution. Its size and classification are, however, not mentioned in the Constitution. Its size is determined by the prime minister according to the exigencies of the time and requirements of the situation.  
• It was inserted in Article 352 of the Constitution in 1978 by the 44th Constitutional Amendment Act. Thus, originally it was not mentioned in the original constitution. Now also, Article 352 only defines the cabinet saying that it is ‘the council consisting of the prime minister and other ministers of cabinet rank appointed under Article 75’ and does not describe its powers and functions.

7.

• It is collectively responsible to the Lower House (Lok Sabha) of the Parliament.
• It enforces the collective responsibility of the council of ministers to the Lower House (Lok Sabha) of Parliament.

8.

• It is a wider body consisting of 60 to 70 ministers of the government.  
• It is a smaller body consisting of 15 to 20 ministers.