- [[42nd Ammendment]] Act in 1976 added a new Part XIVA to the Constitution.
- This part is entitled as ‘Tribunals’ and consists of only two [[Article 323]] A dealing with administrative tribunals and Article 323 B dealing with tribunals for other matters.
- Many States are also provided with the State Administrative Tribunals.
#- The Chairman and the Vice Chairman of the tribunal enjoys the status of a High Court Judgeand his/her retirement age is 65 years) - The Chairman must be a Judge of the High Court or one who served for at least two years as the High Court Judge or the Vice-Chairman of Tribunal.
Administrative Reforms:
- Generally, many areas of Indian administration are based on British legacy.
- At the time of independence, India inherited a colonial administration which was primarily designed for the performance of limited functions of an imperial government, and naturally unsuited to serve the needs of a secular, independent,democratic and socialistic republic of India.
- Hence, the founding fathers of India independence, took several steps to reform Indian administration.
- Actually, the administrative reforms are the developments of administration in India.
- Here, let us discuss some committees which recommended for the reforms and development of Indian administration.
Ayyangar Committee, 1949:
- The first committee setup to undertake a comprehensive review of the machinery of central government towards the end of 1949 was Gopalaswami Ayyangar Committee, which dealt with organisational changes, improvement in calibre of personnel and improvement in methods of transaction of governmental business.
- The committee recommended a distinction between a Ministry and a Department.
- It recommended that the central secretariat should be divided into 37 primary units of organisation consisting of 28 departments, 8 central administrative offices and a cabinet secretariat.
- It also recommended for setting up of an organisation and methods division in each department.
Gorwala Committee, 1951:
- The government of India set up the planning commission in 1950.
- The commission felt that there were many problems in public administration. Hence, the commission requested Mr. Gorwala, a retired IAS officer to make a study and suggest measures for bringing about reforms in public administration, especially in relation to the implementation of the development programmes of the central and the state governments. He mainly recommended that parliamentary government with a cabinet system on the British model cannot be effective unless there is the standard of morality of the functionaries.