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Volume : V, Issue : I, February - 2015 LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS REGARDING CIVIL SERVANTS AFTER INDEPENDENCE AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH DOCTRINE OF PLEASURE Mohan Shakti, None By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The' Doctrine of pleasure which was incorporated in Government of India Act, 1935,
was not added to the services provisions in Draft Constitution. Only the safeguards against the dismissal as aforesaid were incorporated. A member of the constituent Assembly has pointed out that without an efficient Civil Service, it will be impossible for the government to carry on and the continuity of policy to be kept. Another member has also pointed out that with the independence of our country, the responsibilities of the services have become onerous. The final stage regarding service conditions of civil servants in India was reached in January 1950 after the commencement of the Republican Constitution of India incorporating part XIV with the heading" Services Under the Union and the States. Under the present Constitution of India, the subsection (1) of section 240 of the 1935 Act is substantially reproduced in Article 310 (1), and subsection (2) and (3) of section 240 incorporated in Article 311 (1) and (2), while section 276 of the 1935 Act, which continued the existing rules in force in embodied in Article 313. Keywords : Unable to cast object of type 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.String'.
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