Make a good & neat project on ‘The President’.
Include the following:
Qualifications, Term, Salary and Allowances, Process of Election, Powers and functions.
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The President of India is the head of the executive, legislature and judiciary of the country. Article 52 of the Constitution of India says that there should be a President of India. Article 53 says that all the executive powers of the Union shall be exercised by him either directly or through officers subordinate to him.
Current President of India
Ram Nath Kovind is the current and 14th President of India. Kovind assumed office on 25 July 2017 after winning the 2017 presidential election. He is the second dalit to become the President of India. A lawyer by profession, Kovind practiced in the Delhi High Court and Supreme Court of India till 1993. In 1994 he became a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha. He served as an MP from 1994 to 2006. From 2015 to 2017, Kovind was the Governor of Bihar.
Kovind was born on 1 October 1945 in Paraukh village in UP's Kanpur Dehat district in a dalit family. Kovind recived his bachelor's degree in commerce and an LLB degree from DAV College. After completing his education, Kovind took the civil services exam and cleared in the third attempt. However, he did not join as he did not make it to the IAS but an allied service. Thereafter Kovind began practicing law. He held important positions such as Central Government Advocate in Delhi High Court, personal assistant of Prime Minister Morarji Desai, etc. In 1991, he joined the BJP and in 1994 became a Rajya Sabha MP.
Nominated by the NDA for the position of the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind defeated Meira Kumar winning 65.65 percent of the valid votes.
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