The visible section of the dynamic legislature is parliamentary members (MPs) who are eager to debate critical national problems that make up the country.
But the independent secretariat of the government, working tirelessly in the background that supports the legislative function, is the backbone of parliament.
Two parliamentary officers, Maheshwar Nath Kaul and Sham Lal Shakdher devoted themselves to create an efficient parliamentary administration for Indian National Legislative Independent.
Before independence, Vithalbhai Patel, the first president of the Central Assembly, ensured that the legislative secretariat was responsible to the chairman’s officer, not the government.
It was called the legislative assembly department, and it was a department of veins that joined in 1937.
Increased through the ranks, Kaul became the Secretary of the Constituent Assembly.
This is where it helps in printed provisions related to parliament in the constitution.
Then, he was at administrative leadership in the temporary parliament and finally took over the secretariat of Lok Sabha.
Shakdher’s trip to Lok Sabha’s government began in the newly created parliamentary affairs department.
He was his first secretary in 1949.
After that, he followed his mentor to Parliament as an officer about a special task and finally became his representative at the Secretariat of Lok Sabha.
He then replaced Kaul as Secretary Lok Sabha.
Our constitution empowers two parliamentary houses to make their own procedure rules and have separate secretarial staff.
Kaul and Shakdher collected the foundation of voice procedures and the responsive secretariat to implement it.
For example, in 1952, at the first Sabha from Independent India, the rules provided that the house would begin to function at 10:45 a.m.
The time is subject to speaker instructions.
This also provided MPS gave their questions 10 days before to allow ministers to answer them.
Apply these two simple rules, among many others, requires organizational efforts coordinated by the Secretariat of Lok Sabha.
First, then-speaker G V Mavalankar directs that the house will start functioning at 8:15 a.m.
That means a group of secretariat personnel must arrive for hours before opening, cleaning and preparing parliamentary areas for that day.
Other groups must prepare for today’s schedule, answers to questions, and parliamentary papers.
They will also make a copy of each document for each MP.
Chakshu Roy, head of outreach, research staff and the Legislative PrS environment will help MPs and direct the public to the gallery to watch the home process.
When the process will begin, the record of each word says in the legislative space will be saved and then published.
Parally, Secretariat personnel will check that questions sent by MPs for the following days to obey the rules of the procedure.
They will then send them to each ministry for their response and compile their answers.
Then the process will begin again for the next day.
Sometimes, there is hiccup.
On June 5, 1952, MPS Lok Sabha will be surprised when they reach parliament.
They see the Great Britain flag flying in the building, not Tricolor India.
The restless MPS demands answers from the government.
A few days later, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru will clarify at home that has occurred because of an improper understanding of instructions.
Kaul and Shakdher ensure procedural aspects and operational parliamentary functions work smoothly.
With colleagues support, they design rules not only for business implementation in the legislature but also on its committees.
They also support the Council and Parliament of countries from other countries for the constitutional issues and legislative procedures.
During his tenure, Kuli began the parliamentary academic journal.
In the first problem, he put the need for a journal as a tool to disseminate parliamentary information and as a vehicle to share insight into institutional functions.
Writing in the same problem, Shakdher describes an ideal parliamentary official as objective, non-partisan, patient and committed to the country’s services.
At retirement, Lok Sabha’s speakers appointed Kaul and Shakdher as honorary officers of the house.
The President nominated Kaul to Rajya Sabha as a member of parliament, and Shakdher became the major election commissioner.
Their eternal heritage is a semen book, ‘practice and procedure in parliament’.
Popularly referred to as a vow and Shakdher, it is the first port of a call for everyone who is interested in our legislative function.
The book was updated by the Parliament Secretariat, occupying a prominent place in every legislative space in the country.