Question

Explain the importance of institutional design of the Constitution of India
CBSE Class IX Social Science LA (5 Marks)

Answer 1

We are living in troubled times. There is so much of corruption at the official level. The political class as a whole is at a crossroads with its credibility itself at stake. There is rather loose and irresponsible talk of censorship in the air. In the midst of political loose talk on quotas, and quotas within quotas, large sections of the minorities continue to live rather deprived lives. The Dalit Bahujan movement seems to have become too symbolic and personality-oriented. There is discontent among the middle class and the business class seems to have become sullen and gloomy. The proposed new law on disability stumbling at several procedural hurdles and the Women’s Reservation as well as the Lokpal bills have become symbols of our constitutional and political ineptitude. Our engagement with poverty has been limited to some obnoxious numbers given by the Planning Commission. In such a cynical atmosphere, it is easy to attribute all our failings to the Constitution and the institutional design it has given us