write short note on drafting committee ?
Answers
1. Drafting committee was set up on 29 August 1947 under the chairmanship of Dr. B R Ambedkar.
2. The constituent assembly took 2 years , 11 months and 17 days to frame the constitution.
3. It spent 6.4 crore Rupees in the preparation.
4. There were 22 parts, 395 articles and 8 schedules.
5. The constitution had got ready on 26th November 1949 and some provisions relating to Citizenship, Elections, provisional parliament, temporary & transitional provisions were given immediate effect.
6. Rest of the constitution came into force on 26 January 1950.
7.26 January 1929 marked the “Poorna Swarajya “resolution of Indian National Congress under Jawahar lal Nehru and so the date was chosen in 1950 to be our republic day.
Explanation:
Drafting is the preliminary stage of a written work in which the author begins to develop a more cohesive product. A draft document is the product the writer creates in the initial stages of the writing process.
In the drafting stage, the author:
develops a more cohesive text
organizes thoughts
explains examples/ideas
uncovers transitions
discovers a central argument/point
elaborates on key ideas
In a book that became popular in the 1950s, The Elements of Style, famed authors Strunk and White describe the first draft as being a less edited version of the final draft. In their book, Strunk and White say, “the first principle of composition is to foresee or determine the shape of what is to come and pursue that shape.[1]” This shape is the draft that eventually becomes the finished work.
More recently, Peter Elbow, in his book Writing Without Teachers, presents a very different view of the drafting stage in the writing process. He describes his stance on the writing process, saying “Writing is a way to end up thinking something you couldn’t have started out thinking.[2]” According to Elbow, the best way to accomplish this is a series of drafts which come together to produce an emerging “center of gravity” that then translates into the main focus on the work. This process should be a holistic process, not a linear process. Elbow's reasoning behind this concept of multiple drafts follows the idea that, “if he learns to maximize the interaction among his own ideas or points of view, he can produce new ones that didn’t seem available to him.[3]”
Whether being used as the creation of a less-edited final product (Strunk and White) or as a tool during the prewriting stage (Elbow), drafting is a necessary stage for the writer in the writing process. Having created a draft, the author is then able to move onto the revision.