Identify the civil servant who assisted the Drafting Committee of the Constitution and he had the ability to put complex proposals into clear legal language while the Constitution of India was being drafted.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → S.N. Mukherjee
S.N. Mukherjee, the Chief Draughtsman, was one of the two civil servants who assisted the leading members of the Constituent Assembly, among them B.R. Ambedkar, Chairman of the Drafting Committee. He had the ability to put complex proposals in clear legal language.
NCERT (2026-27): “1.2 The dominant voices … Besides this Congress trio, a very important member of the Assembly was the lawyer and economist B.R. Ambedkar. During the period of British rule, Ambedkar had been a political opponent of the Congress; but, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi, he was asked at Independence to join the Union Cabinet as law minister. In this capacity, he served as Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution. Serving with him were two other lawyers, K.M. Munshi from Gujarat and Alladi Krishnaswamy Aiyar from Madras, both of whom gave crucial inputs in the drafting of the Constitution. These six members were given vital assistance by two civil servants. One was B. N. Rau, Constitutional Advisor to the Government of India, who prepared a series of background papers based on a close study of the political systems obtaining in other countries. The other was the Chief Draughtsman, S. N. Mukherjee, who had the ability to put complex proposals in clear legal language. Ambedkar himself had the responsibility of guiding the Draft Constitution through the Assembly.…” |