The Pitt's India Act empowered the Governor - General with
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The East India Company Act (EIC Act 1784), also known as Pitt's India Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to address the shortcomings of the Regulating Act of 1773 by bringing the East India Company's rule in India under the control of the British Government.
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The Pitt's India Act empowered the Governor - General with A casting vote
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In 1784, William Pitt, the Prime Minister of Britain, introduced an act to plug the loopholes in the regulating act.
The new act set up a Board of Control in Britain to supervise the company's civil, military and revenue affairs in India.
The governor general was given additional powers, including the power to overrule his Council and exercise greater control over the Presidencies( an administrative division in British India) of Bombay and Madras.
He was also made the supreme commander of the British forces in India.