INDIAN PARLIAMENT

INDIAN PARLIAMENT

What is parliament ? 

A Parliament is a main part of any democratic country but Parliament does not work in countries where is dictatorship.

Parliament is a basic need of any democratic country like in food we need salt for taste like this we need parliament to ensure the on going development of our nation.

Morden Parliament mainly have three functions that are 

1) Representing the electorates. 
2) Making laws. 
3) Overseeing the government via hearing & enquiries.

In every country the name of Parliament is different. Like -

COUNTRY                             PARLIAMENT

  AUSTRALIA             ⇒            Federal Parliament

  CHINA                       ⇒            National people Congress (NPC)

  U.S.A                           ⇒            Congress

  INDIA                         ⇒             Sansad

(  https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/list-of-countries-and-their-parliaments-1399714528-1   )

Indian Parliament is known as SANSAD (संसद).....

India is biggest democratic country in the world. So we also need biggest and powerful parliament.
parliament of india two houses.

1.  Rajya sabha ( upper house )

2.  Lok sabha ( lower house ) 

Lok sabha  ( house of the people ) 

Lower house ( lok sabha ) has 552 members. All are directly elected by citizens of the country. Every citizen of country who is over 18 years of age is eligible to vote for the lok sabha. The time period of the members of lok sabha is 5 years. 

To be eligible for membership in the lok sabha a person must be a citizen of india and must be 25 years of the age  and should not be criminally convinced. 

Lok sabha is temporary house it can be dissolve at any time. 

Rajya sabha  ( Council of states ) 

Upper House ( rajya sabha) has 250 maximum members. Its members are elected by members of legislative bodies of the state. The minimum age for a person to become a member of rajya sabha is 30 years. 

Each member is elected for a term of six years. And one third ( 1/3 ) of the members retire every second year. 

Rajya sabha is a permanent house it can't be dissolve. 

TOTAL MEMBERS IN BOTH HOUSES

LOK SABHA      

TOTAL SEAT                                                               ➡           552 MEMBERS

ELECTED FROM DIFFRENT STATES                       ➡         530 MEMBERS

REPRESENTING UNION TERRITORIES              ➡      20 MEMBERS

ANGLO-INDIAN ( NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT. )  ➡    2 MEMBERS

RAJYA SABHA 

TOTAL SEAT                                                                                        ➡  250 MEMBERS 

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE AND UNION TERRITORIES    ➡ 238 MEMBERS 

PRESIDENT NOMINATED.                                                                     ➡ 12 MEMBERS