Introduction to Indian Parliament

Ravindra Garimella, formerly Joint Secretary (legislation), has more than three decades of work experience in legislative, house related matters. He has been an Officer at the Table for 25 years and is well versed in procedures and practices adopted in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Besides his expertise in Privileges, Ethics, and Committee work, he is a regular contributor to UK Parliamentary Journals, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Warwick and the University of Nottingham UK, SOAS, University of London. He serves on the faculty of PRIDE, Parliament of India’s capacity-building institution, and the Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies.Prasad Kunduri has reported proceedings of both Houses of Parliament as a Correspondent for leading media houses, Press Trust of India, The Hindu, and The Tribune since 1985. He is also the only Indian journalist who worked with the US Congress as a Fulbright American Political Sciences Association Fellow. He contributes opinion pieces on Parliament, Politics, and Contemporary Affairs besides being invited as an expert to share thoughts on Media and the Parliament by PRIDE and the Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies.

• 1. Indian Parliament 2. Political Parties and Parliament 3. Constitutional Provisions and Rules of Procedures 4. President and Houses of Parliament 5. Lok Sabha – House of People 6. Rajya Sabha – Council of States 7. Parliamentary Devices 8. Parliamentary Privileges 9. Norms of Standards and Etiquette for Parliamentarians 10. Making the Law 11. Budget and Its Passage 12. Accountability of the Executive to Parliament 13. Relationship with Judiciary 14. Parliament – Relations with Press and Media 15. Parliament and International Institutions 16. Gender, Minorities and Reservation. Appendices.