Category: Executive Bodies

Law Commission of India

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Law Commission of India

The Law Commission of India came into existence through an order of the Government of India. Its main role is to work towards legal reform. The government elects the members of the Law Commission who are all legal experts. It acts as an advisor to the Ministry of Law & Justice and is set-up for a fixed term.  

NITI Aayog

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NITI Aayog

The policy think tank of the Government of India is referred to as NITI Aayog (Policy Commission). It was set-up with the vision of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Established in 2015, the NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission.

The NITI Aayog serves the role of the country's main policy-making institution. Additionally, its role involves furthering the economic growth of India. They develop plans to achieve national-level developmental goals in active partnership with Indian states. The Prime Minister is the head and Chairman of Niti Aayog and is responsible for further recruiting a Vice-Chairman. 

The NITI Aayog comprises of two working hubs:

  1. Team India Hub: Focussed on ensuring participation of Indian states along with the central government.
  2. The Knowledge and Innovation Hub: Focussed on building the institution’s think tank capabilities

It recognized the following 7 pillars of effective governance and created its model based on them:

  1. Pro-people: It fulfills the aspirations of society and individuals
  2. Pro-activity: It works in anticipation of and response to citizen needs
  3. Participation: It ensures the involvement of the citizenry
  4. Empowering: It focuses on empowering people, especially women in all aspects
  5. Inclusion: It aims for the inclusion of all people irrespective of caste, creed, and gender
  6. Equality: Its goal is to provide equal opportunity to all, especially the youth
  7. Transparency: It works on making the government visible and responsive

Executive Bodies

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Executive Bodies

Executive bodies are non-constitutional and non-statutory bodies. This means that they are not established by the Parliament. Instead, they are established by Executive resolution or action i.e through the government’s action only. These non-statutory bodies can be converted to statutory bodies by enacting a law. This was done in the case of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which was converted into a statutory body by actioning a new law.

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