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ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION:

CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATIONS

Ms. Nisarga Lakshmi, 20LS3K1086

Winning essay of the Essay competition on ‘Constitutional Obliga-

tions’ held to commemorate Republic day 2023.

Constitutional obligations are the set of rules that all the citizens of

India must abide by as the citizens and the fellow beings who enjoy
the government facilities. Indian Constitution provides us with the

freedom of religion, education, political and many more provisions

under which we Indian or the citizens, government officials and the

people reside here enjoy these, so we have that minimal sense of

responsibility that we must follow in order to enjoy the ‘Republic

-Democratic’ government of India.

The Constitution under the chairmanship of Dr Rajendra Prasad in
1946, was the first step towards the formation of the Constitution as-

sembly. Dr BR Ambedkar, prominently known as the architect of In-

dian constitution visited many countries and read many constitutions

of other countries in order to bring the flexible and practicable laws

for Indian Constitution.

The Indian Constitution is known as the ‘Elephantine Constitution’
due to its size which contains more than 4000 pages in it. It is the

world’s largest hand-written constitution which was started in 1945

December 9th and was completed on 26th January 1949. 11 sessions

were held to discuss the Constitution that we hold and finally on 24th

January 1950 our constitution was signed and 26th of January 1950

our constitution was given/taken by our people of India. Initially our
constitution consisted of 395 articles, 08 parts and 22 schedules. Now

446 Articles,12 parts, 24 Schedules and 101 Amendments.

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