The Constituent Assembly of India: Features & its Committees

The Constituent Assembly was set up under the cabinet Mission plan on 16^th May 1946. The members were elected by the Provincial assemblies by the method of single transferable vote system of proportional representations. The Constituent Assembly met for the time on 9^th December 1946, in the library of the Council Chamber Delhi, and 205 members attended the meet. The League representatives and nominees of the Princely States abstained. On 11^th December, the Assembly elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as its permanent President.

Committees of the Constituent Assembly

• Committee on the Rules of Procedure; Steering Committee; Steering Committee; Finance and Staff Committee; Ad hoc Committee on the National Flag;   - Rajendra Prasad

• Credential Committee: Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar

• House Committee: B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya

• Order of Business Committee: K.M. Munsi

• Committee on the Functions of the Constituent Assembly: G.V. Mavalankar

• States Committee; Union Powers Committee; Union Constitution Committee : Jawaharlal Nehru

• Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights, Minorities and Tribal and Excluded Areas - Vallabhbhai Patel

• Minorities Sub-Committee - H.C. Mukherjee

• Fundamental Rights: Sub-Committee -  J.B. Kripalani

• North-East Frontier Tribal Areas and Assam Excluded & Partially Excluded Areas Sub-Committee - Gopinath Bardoloi

• Excluded and Partially Excluded Areas (Other than those in Assam) Sub-Committee - A.V. Thakkar

• Drafting Committee - B.R. Ambedkar