Formation | 28 August 1833 |
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Current constitution | Indian Constitution of 1950 |
Country | Republic of India |
Website | india |
Legislative branch | |
Legislature | Parliament |
Meeting place | Parliament House |
Executive branch | |
Leader | President of India along with Union Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister of India |
Headquarters | Central Secretariat |
Departments | Union Council of Ministers, Union Government ministries of India |
Judicial branch | |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Chief Justice | Chief Justice of India |
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The Government of India constitutionally known as the Union Government and also called the Central Government, is the national authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.
The government, seated in New Delhi, has three primary branches: the legislative, the executive and the judiciary, whose powers are vested in a bicameral Parliament, a prime minister, and the Supreme Court respectively, with a president as head of state. Judicial appointments are made with negligible say from the executive or legislature.[citation needed]
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