Proposal and enactment of the 14th Amendment Act, 1962
- The Lok Sabha heard the introduction of the Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Bill, 1962 on August 30.
- It was carried out by Lal Bahadur Shastri, the minister of home affairs at that time, and tried to change articles 81 and 240 as well as the First and Fourth Schedules of the Constitution. Additionally, it aimed at changing the Constitution by adding a new article 239A.
- The Lok Sabha discussed and approved the measure on September 4, 1962, after making certain changes. On September 7, 1962, the Rajya Sabha discussed and approved the measure that had been approved by the Lok Sabha.
- On September 4 and September 7, 1962, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, respectively, accepted Bill’s original contents of clauses 1, 2, 3, and 5 to 7. The Bill’s clause 4 aimed to add a new article 239A to the Constitution, giving Parliament the authority to enact legislation and create legislatures and councils of ministers for certain Union territories.
- In the Lok Sabha, Hari Vishnu Kamath suggested changing clause 4 to remove the words “nominated or” from clause 1(a) of the new article 239A.
- The amended Clause 4 was approved by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. The amendment had the effect of preventing the legislatures of the Union territory from being completely nominated bodies.
- On December 28, 1962, the legislation was approved by the administration of the time’s president, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and it also became operative on the same day. On December 29, 1962, The Gazette of India published a notice about it.
Fourteenth Amendment Act, 1962 in Indian Constitution
The Constitution of India’s Fourteenth Amendment, officially known as the Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Act, 1962, established Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Manipur, Daman and Diu, and Puducherry as the country’s ninth union territory and granted Parliament the authority to enact laws establishing legislatures and councils of ministers for each. On August 30, the Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Bill, 1962 was first heard in the Lok Sabha. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the minister of home affairs at the time, suggested making this adjustment. Generally speaking, the proposed Fourteenth Amendment Act would establish legislative bodies and ministerial councils in the union territories of Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, Goa, Pondicherry, Daman, and Diu on the model of the program that was in place in some of the Part C States before the reorganization of the States. The Bill intends to create a new article 239A that generally follows the wording of article 240 as it existed before the reorganization of the States to grant Parliament the necessary legislative authority to pass legislation for this purpose.