Delimitation Commission:-

• The Delimitation Commission is appointed by the President of India and works in collaboration with the Election Commission of India.

Composition:-

• Retired Supreme Court judge
Chief Election Commissioner
Respective State Election Commissioners

Functions:-

• To determine the number and boundaries of constituencies to make population of all constituencies nearly equal.

• To identify seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, wherever their population is relatively large.

• In case of difference of opinion among members of the Commission, the opinion of the majority prevails.

• The Delimitation Commission in India is a high power body whose orders have the force of law and cannot be called in question before any court.

Delimitation Problems:-

• Because of the delimitation process, states that have not achieved any significant strides in reducing their population could end up with larger numbers of seats in the Parliament.

• In 2008, delimitation was based on the census of 2001, however, the total number of seats in the Parliament and the Legislative Assemblies fixed as per the census of 1971 was not changed.

• Another problem is that the Constitution of India has put a cap on the maximum number of seats in the Lok Sabha to 550 and Rajya Sabha to 250. So, because of delimitation, an increasing number of populations are being represented by a single representative.

• An amendment has postponed the lifting up of the cap on the maximum seats in the parliament to the year 2026, on the grounds that a uniform growth rate of population would be achieved by 2026 throughout India.

White flag campaign

◼️this movement was started in Malaysia.

◼️low income residents of Malaysia started waving white flag as part of campaign.

◼️It is also known as Benderaputi (White flag) movement

◼️This is due to convey their distress about financial crunch they have to deal with amid lockdown due to COVID-19

◼️Here families who need help as a symbol wave a whit flag or piece of white flag outside their house.

◼️So that people can understand and good Samaritans can reach them and help them.

Aadya Youtube session sheet-PLACES OF WORSHIP ACT.pdf

Vidhi YouTube Session.pdf

July 16, 2021

1 Sedition law colonial, is it still needed , Concerned over misuse (Main Page-pg-no-1)

2 Dismissal of JK Govt Employees:What the constitution says (Explained-pg no-5)

3 Past as Present (Editorial Page-pg no-6)

4 Ghost of section 66A (Editorial Page-pg no-6)

5 The Last Shot (Editorial Page-pg no-6)

6 The Post-Pandemic Doctor (Editorial Page-pg no-6)

7 The Double Engine Effect (Editorial Page-pg no-6)

8 On caste,the road not taken (Ideas Page-pg no-7)

9 Support, Don't Paralyse ((Ideas-Pg no-7)

National Security Act (NSA), 1980

◼️Former civil servants have demanded an end to the misuse of the National Security Act terming it a draconian preventive detention law.

◼️The NSA is a preventive detention law.

◼️Preventive Detention involves the detainment (containment) of a person in order to keep him/her from committing future crimes and/or from escaping future prosecution.

◼️Article 22 (3) (b) of the Constitution allows for preventive detention and restriction on personal liberty for reasons of state security and public order.

◼️Article 22(4)states that:
No law providing for preventive detention shall authorise the detention of a person for a longer period than three months unless:

An Advisory Board reports sufficient cause for extended detention.

◼️The 44th Amendment Act of 1978 has reduced the period of detention without obtaining the opinion of an advisory board from three to two months.