POL SE 3014 Parliamentary Procedures and Practices

Course Name: POL SE 3014 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES

About the Course:

ABILITY ENHANCEMENT- (SKILL-BASED) POL SE 3014 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES

Course Objective:

The course attempts to make the students familiar with legislative practices in India with an orientation to equip them with the adequate skills of participation in deliberative processes and democratic decision making. The introductory unit of the course aims to provide a basic understanding of the constitutional provisions related to the process of legislation as well as the kinds of bills. The second unit of this course seeks to enhance proper understanding related to the procedures, practices related to the passage of a bill from drafting to that of the passing of the Bill. The third unit is about different Committees in the House, and the Fourth unit is on hours and motions in the House.

Course outcome:

• To help students in understanding the practical approaches to legislative practices and procedures,

• To make students understand the procedures and processes related to drafting a Bill and the passage of the Bill,

• To enable students to have an understanding of the importance of Parliamentary Committees,

• To make students learn about the basic functioning of Parliament.

Course Plan: POL SE 3014 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES

Session Plan:

Unit: I. Constitutional Provisions and Kinds of Bills

Constitutional provisions of legislative procedures: Articles 107-22

Kinds of Bills: Ordinary Bills, Money Bills, Finance Bills, Private Member Bills

Unit: II. Drafting, Introductions and Readings of the Bills: Procedures and Processes

• Drafting of the Bill

• First Reading and Departmental Standing Committee

• Second Reading

• Third Reading

• Passage of the Bill

• Consent by the President

• Gazette Notifications

Unit: III. Parliamentary Committees: Composition and Functioning (12)

• Departmental Standing Committees

• Select Committees

• Joint Parliamentary Committees

• Public Accounts Committee

• Committee on Privilege

• Business Advisory Committee

• Ethics Committee

Unit: IV. Motions and Hours in the House

• Question Hour

• Zero Hour

• Calling Attention Motion

• Adjournment Motion

• Privilege motion

• Censure motion

• No-confidence' motion

• Cut motion

Readings List

• Kapur D. and P. Mehta eds. (2005), Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design, New Delhi, Oxford University Press.

• Kaul, M. N. & S. L. Shakhdher (2016), Practice and Procedure of Parliament, New Delhi.

• Lok sabha Secretariat Mehra, A.K. ed. (2017),The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation,New Delhi, Routledge.

• Basu,D.D. (2006), Introduction to the Constitution of India, Nagpur, Wadhwa & Co.

• Kapur, D., Mehta, P. & Vaishnab, M. eds. (2017), Rethinking Public Institution in India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press.

• Kashyap, S. (2000), Reviewing the Constitution, New Delhi, Shipra Publication.

• Malhotra, G. (2002), Fifty years of Indian Parliament, New Delhi, Lok Sabha Secretariate

• Mehra, A.K.& Kueck G.W. eds. (2003), The Indian Parliament: A Comparative Perspective, New Delhi, Konark Publishers.

• Prakash, A.S. (1995), What Ails Indian Parliament, New Delhi, Harper & Collins.

• Pai, Sudha & Kumar, A. Eds. (2014), The Indian Parliament: A Critical Appraisal, New Delhi, Orient BlackSwan.

• Shankar, B. & Rodriguez V. (2011), The Indian Parliament: A Democracy at Work, New Delhi, Oxford University Press.

• Singh, D. (2016), The Indian Parliament: Beyond the Seal and Signature of Democracy, Gurgaon, India, Universal Law Publishing.