Question

Explain the nature of the executive in India.

Answer 1

Answer:

The term ‘Executive’ has been defined both in its broad and narrow forms. In its broad form, it is taken to mean all the functionaries, political power-holders (Political Executive) and permanent civil servants who undertake the execution of laws and policies and run the administration of state.

In its narrow form, it is taken to mean only the executive heads (ministers i.e. the political Executive), who head the government departments, formulate the policies and supervise the implementation of the laws and policies of the government. In the narrow form, the civil service and its administrative functions are not included in the realm of the Executive.

Traditionally, only the narrow meaning used to be accepted by the political scientists. However, in modern times, the executive is defined in its broader form and it covers both the Political Executive as well as the Civil Service.

Answer 2

Nature of the Executive in India

Explanation:

• The second however most dominant organ of the government is the Executive. It is that organ which executes the laws passed by the lawmaking body and the policies of the government. The rise of welfare state has immensely expanded the functions of the state, and as a general rule of the executive. In like manner usage individuals will in general distinguish the executive with the administration. In contemporary occasions, there has occurred a major increment in the power and job of the official in each state.

• It consists of the executive head of the state and other heads of the executive departments is ministers and the Civil Servants.