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Article 323
Reports of Public Service Commissions

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Article 323 / Part XIV

Reports of Public Service Commissions

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THE PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE

What does this mean?

Commissions report annually to the President or Governor, who lays the report and explanations for rejected advice before the appropriate legislature. This links expert recruitment advice with public accountability.

Public-service recruitment, tenure safeguards, All-India Services and Public Service Commissions.

PURPOSE & CONTEXT

Why is this provision here?

Public-service institutions need predictable appointment, independence, continuity and accountability arrangements. This is the particular safeguard or enabling rule 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.

The explanation of purpose is an editorial reading of the provision. A drafting motive is attributed only where a linked historical source supports it.

Limits, exceptions & reading carefully

Educational summary of the linked source text. Exceptions, provisos, implementing laws and applicable judgments must be read before applying it to a real case.

Read the official constitutional text
323. Reports of Public Service Commissions.—(1) It shall be the duty of the Union Commission to present annually to the President a report as to the work done by the Commission and on receipt of such report the President shall cause a copy thereof together with a memorandum explaining, as respects the cases, if any, where the advice of the Commission was not accepted, the reasons for such non-acceptance to be laid before each House of Parliament. (2) It shall be the duty of a State Commission to present annually to the Governor *** of the State a report as to the work done by the Commission, and it shall be the duty of a Joint Commission to present annually to the Governor *** of each of the States the needs of which are served by the Joint Commission a report as to the work done by the Commission in relation to that State, and in either case the Governor ***, shall, on receipt of such report, cause a copy thereof together with a memorandum explaining, as respects the cases, if any, where the advice of the Commission was not accepted, the reasons for such non- acceptance to be laid before the Legislature of the State.
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.