About:
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- Articles 52-78 (Part V) of the Constitution deal with the .
- The Union executive consists of the President, the Vice President, the Prime Minister, the council of ministers and the attorney general of India.
Role and functions of president as chief executive
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- All executive actions of the Government are taken in the name of President.
- Make rules for convenient transaction of business of the Union government.
- Appoints the prime minister and the other ministers.
- He appoints the attorney general of India, comptroller and auditor general of India, the chief election commissioner and other election commissioners, the chairman and members of the Union Public Service Commission, the governors of states, the chairman and members of finance commission, and so on.
- He can seek any information relating to the administration of affairs of the Union.
- He can require the Prime Minister to submit, for consideration of the council of ministers, any matter which has not been considered by the council.
- He can appoint an inter-state council to promote Centre-state and inter-state cooperation.
- He administers union territories directly through administrators appointed by him.
- He declares an area as scheduled area and has powers to administer scheduled areas and tribal areas.
