Talk:Government of India

message: The article Subhashini Ali consists of a list of what appear to be past and present Indian government officials. Anyone have any idea what this article is trying to communicate? I know there is a former MP by that name as well as an actress. They should probably have an article at that name but I'm trying to find out what the creator's intent was in putting up this list. Thanks for any insights! Demi T/C 07:39, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Help deciphering [[Subhashini Ali]]?

message: The list in the article misses the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Which high court has jurisdiction over them? Anwar 21:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Andaman has a high court?

message: From the page:  "Any minister holding a portfolio must be a member of either house of parliament."  Can anyone explain this phrase "holding a portfolio" to someone unfamiliar with Indian or parliamentary government?   It might help to explain it in the article if it might be helpful to others as well.  24.155.88.186 22:46, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holding a portfolio? 

message: I believe there is an inaccuracy regarding whether indian legislators are elected to the Lok Sabha via proportional representation.  I believe they are elected via a first past the post system. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.36.68.201 (talk) 06:44, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  proportional representation 

message: The section on Socialism seems to be a non-NPOV. Consider revising.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.154.121.182 (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Socialism

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Government of India's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "survey":
From Standard of living in India: 
From Poverty in India: Sarkaritel.com : Corporate News & Features : Highlights of Economic Survey 2004-2005
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:20, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Government of India]] 

message: Who's been writing this article? The Indian Tourism Agency???
"The concept of tipping and working on commission is new to India. She has enjoyed her freedom for little over 60 years, less than the average life span of a human. The democratic western world has enjoyed such privileges for a long time, whereas the other major communist or socialist nation have enforced its ways into people's lives. As India still maintains a free and fair policy to all citizens (with of course some exceptions) concepts like "premium" processing is new and is being slowly adopted to reduce the otherwise action of corruption. At micro levels, these are called as "Tatkaal" schemes being introduced in government offices, meaning immedidate processing, which directly deals with the common man. At macro levels these are called betterment charges that are levied on corporations that wish to invest in large projects. Starting early 90s, privatization has helped government to raise more taxes, than the money being laundered in corruptions. Professions such as facilitator, negotiator, or coloquillay known as an "agent", such professions were never part of the Indian society and in business there was a seller and a buyer; and negotiation was considered the skill of the seller to influence the buyer.
Talking of corruption, press in India has more freedom and is not as supresssed as it is in rest of the world. Press plays an important role in dealing with corruption.
In general, it is amazing how a nation in spite of having so many cross cultural relationships, different languages, people from various ethinicity and religion, the social fabric of India is still intact with of course a little abrasions here and there."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.255.196.199 (talk) 23:39, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV????

message: The section on reform contains significant bias towards highlighting and enhancing the perception of corruption in the nation. The citations, though well-placed, have been selectively placed to cater to the presumed bias. The subject and the implications are too vast. There are no benchmarks on the quality of governance of a nation, let alone one with a diversity as huge and a complex past as that of India, factors which bring their own set of challenges. Using a singular lens to look at this democracy and to judge it thereby is a flaw which needs to be avoided and corrected.
- Mave12 (talk) 20:29, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There are statistics gathered on corruption by country. While they also include business corruption, police and government corruption are also mentioned. India scored 88 out of 159. While this doesn't sound too bad, the actual subjective score was 2.9 out of a possible 10, with countries scoring close to ten. So while India has a lot of company, the corruption does not look good. see. I don't think anyone is making this up. Police are switched around fairly rapidly because they are corrupt and some of their superiors are trying to fight that. Not a good situation at all. Pretending it doesn't exist is not productive nor encyclopedic. This is not supposed to be WP:PR for India. It is supposed to report the truth. Student7 (talk) 22:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reform

message: 173.49.246.160 (talk) 22:23, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: CTJF83 17:53, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from , 6 November 2011 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The lead section should be a summary of the whole article, up to 4 full paragraphs long, not a one-liner. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 18:16, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a real lead section 

message: In the paragraph:
Modelled after the Westminster system for governing the state, the union government is mainly composed of the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary, in which all powers are vested by the constitution in parliament, the prime minister and the supreme court.
please change:
"parliament, the prime minister and the supreme court. " TO "the prime minister, the parliament and the supreme court respectively."
This is to correctly order these three with "the executive, the legislature and the judiciary..." in the preceding half of the sentence. Theuprightbassman (talk) 18:07, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done DannyS712 (talk) 19:00, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 25 November 2018 

message: Change second sentence in Section 3.1 on President
From: The president has all constitutional powers and exercises them directly or through officers subordinate to him as per the aforesaid Article 53(1)
To: The president has all constitutional powers and exercises them directly or through subordinate officers as per the aforesaid Article 53(1)
Change first sentence in Section 3.4 on Cabinet, ministries, and agencies
From: The Cabinet of India includes the prime minister and his cabinet ministers
To: The Cabinet of India includes the prime minister and cabinet ministers.
Why: Make this article gender neutral. Sanketpatel.301090 (talk) 06:02, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done--Goldsztajn (talk) 06:40, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 30 August 2019 

message: in the second paragraph it is written that it consist of 24 highcourt,and several district court suggestion is that please make it 672 district court. Somu1805 (talk) 04:48, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. NiciVampireHeart 08:56, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 October 2019 

message: 103.21.125.78 (talk) 17:13, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done DBigXrayᗙ 17:28, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 November 2019 

message: Government_of_India#State_and_local_governments is written as if the topic of this article is government in India. "Power is divided between union government and state governments." Accordingly, is this article about "union government" or the national structures, or about government in India, which includes state and local government structures separate from the national government? I'm inclined to make it about the union government, in which case most of the Government_of_India#State_and_local_governments section should be removed. Daask (talk) 15:34, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are state governments within article scope? 

message: Please change Nine Union territories to Eight Union territories. Sajanrajput007 (talk) 15:17, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 15:58, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 19 June 2020 

message: If I am not mistaken, the 42nd amendment amended the preamble by changing the description of India from "sovereign democratic republic" to a "sovereign, socialist secular democratic republic". Despite this declaration in their constitution, the adjectives socialist and secular are never used in this article. Should mention be added to enhance context regarding the Government of India?Vac1911 (talk) 14:29, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: This article is not about the Indian constitution, and those terms do not significantly add to the article in any way. Debitpixie 💬 16:04, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  42nd Amendment of the Constitution of India 

message: I am considering renaming the page of Government of India into Federal Government of India Ktdk (talk) 02:18, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The word 'Federal' isn't mentioned in Indian constitution. Nitesh003 (talk) 15:56, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

text: To distinguish it from other governments of India that aren't federal? Largoplazo (talk) 16:15, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming the page 

message: has made significant changes to the lead without any sources and without any prior discussion. The user also moved the page without establishing consensus. The user has been warned regarding the issue but that hasn't worked, I am starting this discussion with the hopes of bringing more opinions into this issue and establishing consensus regarding the lead as it was before the edits by the aforementioned user. Prolix 💬 06:46, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , what you refer to in your reply as a 'fact' is merely a statement until you can provide sources that back up your claims. Please avoid edit warring when your edits are reverted, instead take to the talk page and discuss per WP:BRD. Kindly propose your changes with relevant citations under a new section on this talk page. Thank you for understanding. Prolix 💬 18:47, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the unsourced changes to the lead made by {{u|Addie666}} 

message: twenty eight states should be changed to twenty nine states
From : 
The Government of India (ISO: Bhārat Sarkār), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of twenty eight states and eight union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic. The seat of the Government is located in New Delhi, the capital of India.
To : 
The Government of India (ISO: Bhārat Sarkār), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of twenty nine states and eight union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic. The seat of the Government is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. Morsdor (talk) 08:54, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Please stop adding these spam edit requests, there are 28 states . If you claim otherwise provide sources. Prolix 💬 11:11, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

text: FYI Jammu and Kashmir is not a state anymore. 28 is correct. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (Say hi!) 13:38, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 December 2020 

message: change 29 states instead of 28 in para 1 2409:4060:308:FD90:0:0:2678:20AC (talk) 16:08, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:09, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 January 2022 

message: Government of India should not be called as Central government but as Union government. Please change it. 2A01:C23:60D4:5C00:9108:926A:4F95:5DF6 (talk) 12:46, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Reliable sources use both terms — DaxServer (talk · contribs) 20:30, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Its Union government and not central government 

message: You havent Changed the current president name from Ram Nath Kovind to Draupadi Murmu , as she is the president of India since 25 July 2022. Mudits05 (talk) 13:50, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It was updated two days ago in the infobox, but I found one mention of the old president in the body and updated it. Thanks. Largoplazo (talk) 02:07, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change the President Name 

message: The last line of the introductory paragraph spells the word 'negligible' incorrectly. Rectify as soon as possible. Based47 (talk) 14:40, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Largoplazo (talk) 16:23, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  'negligle' 

message: The infobox states that the full official name of the GOI is "Government of the Republic of India" which is a term I've never seen before or in any other articles. Can someone tell if it's sourced or else I'm changing it to "Government of India". PadFoot2008 (talk) 02:45, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official Name?