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The article Subhashini Ali consists of a list of what appear to be past and present Indian government officials. Anyone have any idea what this article is trying to communicate? I know there is a former MP by that name as well as an actress. They should probably have an article at that name but I'm trying to find out what the creator's intent was in putting up this list. Thanks for any insights! Demi T/C 07:39, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
FYI, it looks like the same content appears at Travancore sisters. Demi T/C 07:41, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
The list in the article misses the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Which high court has jurisdiction over them? Anwar 21:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC) The Jurisdiction of Kolkatta(Calcutta) extends upto the Andaman and Nicobar Islands i.e Kolkatta high court has the juridiction over Andaman & Nicobar islands.
From the page: "Any minister holding a portfolio must be a member of either house of parliament." Can anyone explain this phrase "holding a portfolio" to someone unfamiliar with Indian or parliamentary government? It might help to explain it in the article if it might be helpful to others as well. 24.155.88.186 22:46, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
I believe there is an inaccuracy regarding whether indian legislators are elected to the Lok Sabha via proportional representation. I believe they are elected via a first past the post system. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.36.68.201 (talk) 06:44, 7 December 2006 (UTC).
The section on Socialism seems to be a non-NPOV. Consider revising. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.154.121.182 (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Government of India's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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Who's been writing this article? The Indian Tourism Agency???
"The concept of tipping and working on commission is new to India. She has enjoyed her freedom for little over 60 years, less than the average life span of a human. The democratic western world has enjoyed such privileges for a long time, whereas the other major communist or socialist nation have enforced its ways into people's lives. As India still maintains a free and fair policy to all citizens (with of course some exceptions) concepts like "premium" processing is new and is being slowly adopted to reduce the otherwise action of corruption. At micro levels, these are called as "Tatkaal" schemes being introduced in government offices, meaning immedidate processing, which directly deals with the common man. At macro levels these are called betterment charges that are levied on corporations that wish to invest in large projects. Starting early 90s, privatization has helped government to raise more taxes, than the money being laundered in corruptions. Professions such as facilitator, negotiator, or coloquillay known as an "agent", such professions were never part of the Indian society and in business there was a seller and a buyer; and negotiation was considered the skill of the seller to influence the buyer.
Talking of corruption, press in India has more freedom and is not as supresssed as it is in rest of the world. Press plays an important role in dealing with corruption.
In general, it is amazing how a nation in spite of having so many cross cultural relationships, different languages, people from various ethinicity and religion, the social fabric of India is still intact with of course a little abrasions here and there." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.255.196.199 (talk) 23:39, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
The section on reform contains significant bias towards highlighting and enhancing the perception of corruption in the nation. The citations, though well-placed, have been selectively placed to cater to the presumed bias. The subject and the implications are too vast. There are no benchmarks on the quality of governance of a nation, let alone one with a diversity as huge and a complex past as that of India, factors which bring their own set of challenges. Using a singular lens to look at this democracy and to judge it thereby is a flaw which needs to be avoided and corrected. - Mave12 (talk) 20:29, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
The government section of the "Outline of India" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.
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An editor has removed the deterioration of bonds to near junk bond status as outdated (notice the "near"). I haven't checked this either way. However, if bonds ever deteriorated to where S&P rating was single B or Cs, this should be recorded somewhere, such as History of India. There is no reason why there can't be a "History" subsection in the Government article. Student7 (talk) 11:28, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
To the reverter Abecedere. It's not saying "in the name of" anywhere. It's "by the name of". I don't know where you got the "in the name of" thing. I would also like to remind you, that "union of india" is the term which is used in the supreme court to denote the indian government. --91.130.91.48 (talk) 07:42, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Ishantvarade (talk) 20:07, 18 December 2013 (UTC) [www.constitution.org/cons/india/p01001.html Article 1] of The Constitution of India, which says "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States". Here we can easily find that India is the name of the Union of States like USA also we call US is United States of America or United States, but never known as the by the name of United America. In the same manner, the Article 1 of The Constitution of India gives "India" as the name of the Union of States. When we don't have name of the Union of States then how can we know what is the Union of India. After declaration of name of the Union of States as India in Article 1. Now if we move to what is "Union of India" then Article 300 clearly showing that it is the sue or sued name of "The Government of India". But if you see in the Constitutional debates we could find that 'Dominion of India' really covers the period from 15th August 1947 tip to the 25th January, 1950. Before that we had the expression Government of India', the expression 'Government of India' should be confined to Government before the 'Dominion' stage came in. After the Dominion stage is over. Therefore we use 'Union of India' officially for 'Government of India'. Now if we further move and find that from The Constitution of India that Part V. The Union, we can easily find that what is Union of India. Therefore there is difference between 'Union of India' and 'Union of States'
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As per the CIA World Factbook, India ranks 49th in the world, with respect to the Public Debt, with a total of 51.9% of GDP (2010 estimated).[14] 173.49.246.160 (talk) 22:23, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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The lead section should be a summary of the whole article, up to 4 full paragraphs long, not a one-liner. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 18:16, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
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In the paragraph:
Modelled after the Westminster system for governing the state,[1] the union government is mainly composed of the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary, in which all powers are vested by the constitution in parliament, the prime minister and the supreme court.
please change:
"parliament, the prime minister and the supreme court. " TO "the prime minister, the parliament and the supreme court respectively."
This is to correctly order these three with "the executive, the legislature and the judiciary..." in the preceding half of the sentence. Theuprightbassman (talk) 18:07, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
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Change second sentence in Section 3.1 on President From: The president has all constitutional powers and exercises them directly or through officers subordinate to him as per the aforesaid Article 53(1) To: The president has all constitutional powers and exercises them directly or through subordinate officers as per the aforesaid Article 53(1)
Change first sentence in Section 3.4 on Cabinet, ministries, and agencies From: The Cabinet of India includes the prime minister and his cabinet ministers To: The Cabinet of India includes the prime minister and cabinet ministers.
Why: Make this article gender neutral. Sanketpatel.301090 (talk) 06:02, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
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in the second paragraph it is written that it consist of 24 highcourt,and several district court suggestion is that please make it 672 district court. Somu1805 (talk) 04:48, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
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103.21.125.78 (talk) 17:13, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
28 states and 9 union teritory
Government_of_India#State_and_local_governments is written as if the topic of this article is government in India. "Power is divided between union government and state governments." Accordingly, is this article about "union government" or the national structures, or about government in India, which includes state and local government structures separate from the national government? I'm inclined to make it about the union government, in which case most of the Government_of_India#State_and_local_governments section should be removed. Daask (talk) 15:34, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
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Please change Nine Union territories to Eight Union territories. Sajanrajput007 (talk) 15:17, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
If I am not mistaken, the 42nd amendment amended the preamble by changing the description of India from "sovereign democratic republic" to a "sovereign, socialist secular democratic republic". Despite this declaration in their constitution, the adjectives socialist and secular are never used in this article. Should mention be added to enhance context regarding the Government of India?Vac1911 (talk) 14:29, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
I am considering renaming the page of Government of India into Federal Government of India Ktdk (talk) 02:18, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Addie666 has made significant changes to the lead without any sources and without any prior discussion. The user also moved the page without establishing consensus. The user has been warned regarding the issue but that hasn't worked, I am starting this discussion with the hopes of bringing more opinions into this issue and establishing consensus regarding the lead as it was before the edits by the aforementioned user. Prolix 💬 06:46, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
I apologise for the changes I made to the page. I was not aware of the way consensus is made prior to making significant changes to important topics. My intention was just to stress on the fact that India is a 'Federal Republic' and not a unitary one, which the page looked like. Anyway, I apologise for the same. I haven't made any further changes once I was warned and the process was mentioned to me. Addie666💬 18:21, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
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twenty eight states should be changed to twenty nine states
From : The Government of India (ISO: Bhārat Sarkār), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of twenty eight states and eight union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic. The seat of the Government is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. To : The Government of India (ISO: Bhārat Sarkār), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of twenty nine states and eight union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic. The seat of the Government is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. Morsdor (talk) 08:54, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
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change 29 states instead of 28 in para 1 2409:4060:308:FD90:0:0:2678:20AC (talk) 16:08, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Government of India should not be called as Central government but as Union government. Please change it. 2A01:C23:60D4:5C00:9108:926A:4F95:5DF6 (talk) 12:46, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
You havent Changed the current president name from Ram Nath Kovind to Draupadi Murmu , as she is the president of India since 25 July 2022. Mudits05 (talk) 13:50, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
The last line of the introductory paragraph spells the word 'negligible' incorrectly. Rectify as soon as possible. Based47 (talk) 14:40, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
The infobox states that the full official name of the GOI is "Government of the Republic of India" which is a term I've never seen before or in any other articles. Can someone tell if it's sourced or else I'm changing it to "Government of India". PadFoot2008 (talk) 02:45, 22 April 2023 (UTC)