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Executive


The head of state is the president. The role of the president, modeled on the British constitutional monarch, nominal and is largely ceremonial. Most presidential powers are exercised under the leadership of the Cabinet. The chairman of the great political responsibility is to select the prime minister, although that choice is circumscribed by a constantly changing set of agreements (for example, that the leader of the party with the largest number of seats in parliament should be given the first opportunity to to form a government).

President is elected for a five year term by an electoral college consisting of elected members of the national legislature and the state institutions. The president is eligible for consecutive terms. The Vice President is elected in the same manner as the chairman and take the role of president if the president is incapacitated or otherwise unable to achieve his or her duties.

A Board; of Ministers or cabinet is headed by a prime minister and wields executive power at the national level. The Board of Directors, accountable to parliament, the president is elected by the advice of the Prime Minister. Each heads Assemblyman an administrative department of the central government. On the main points, the Indian cabinet system is identical to that of Britain . There is a constitutionally defined division of responsibilities between national and state governments, so that the national government has exclusive powers in areas such as defense, foreign affairs, while the states are responsible for health systems and the development of agriculture, under other areas. Some areas are the joint responsibility of both the national and state governments, such as education.

real; management is carried out by a large number of layers of civil service, almost all of whom were recruited through a competitive, merit-based research. At the top is the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), whose senior members serve as the administrative heads of departments, responsible only to their minister. All members of this service are assigned to certain states and most of their early careers in these countries. They usually begin as district-level managers and quickly to the major state-level departments. Additional central government civil services include the Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service, and services for the audit and accounting, posts and telegraphs, customs and excise, and railways.