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THE CONSTITUTION, MADE UNDERSTANDABLE

Article 281
Recommendations of the Finance Commission

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Article 281 / Part XII

Recommendations of the Finance Commission

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THE PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE

What does this mean?

The President lays the Finance Commission's recommendations and an explanatory memorandum on action taken before Parliament. This creates a public legislative accountability stage after the recommendations.

Taxes, government funds, financial sharing, property, borrowing, contracts and legal proceedings.

PURPOSE & CONTEXT

Why is this provision here?

Public finance needs rules identifying lawful revenues, financial responsibility and government-to-government arrangements. This provision sets the particular allocation, safeguard or procedure described above.

Historical evidence

This Article number belongs to the original constitutional framework, but its present wording may include later amendments or substitutions. A provision-specific original Assembly debate has not been verified here. The explanation of function above is editorial inference from the text, not an attributed single motive of the framers. The original draft-making archive is a research resource, not proof of a particular historical reason.

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Limits, exceptions & reading carefully

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Read the official constitutional text
281. Recommendations of the Finance Commission.—The President shall cause every recommendation made by the Finance Commission under the provisions of this Constitution together with an explanatory memorandum as to the action taken thereon to be laid before each House of Parliament. Miscellaneous Financial Provisions
Source-page notes · may concern neighbouring Articles

1. The words "or Rajpramukh" omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 29 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1-11-1956).

Extracted from the Legislative Department’s May 2026 edition. Page footnotes may refer to neighbouring provisions; check their markers in the PDF. Inclusion in this edition does not by itself establish commencement or judicial effect.