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CHAPTER I

THE
ROYAL FAMILY
Article 50

1. There shall be a Queen for the Nation. The office may be called
alternatively, the Crown.
2. The Queen shall be head of Executive branch of government of Ganges
and shall act in aid & advice of her government duly constituted.
Provided that the Queen shall exercise her discretion in specified matters
provided for in this Constitution notwithstanding the aid & advice of her
government.
3. The Queen shall also be nominal head of Judiciary. Therefore, no court
shall discuss any matter relating to her actions.
4. The Queen as head of State shall also be the nominal head of all three
branches of armed forces – military, air force, naval force.
5. In any eventuality of sickness or temporary absence, the Mother of
Nation shall be acting Queen and in her absence, any senior member of
the Royal family closest in link with the Queen shall act as acting Crown.
The decision shall be taken by the Government Council in consultation
with Archbishop in consonance with the traditions of Crown.1
6. In the eventuality of death or resignation of Queen, the Mother of Nation
shall be acting Queen and in her absence, any senior member of the
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As per history, there have been various incidents in which ruling Monarch passed away without MoN thus
causing Gvt in council to appoint Acting Queen. The next closest kin after MoN is FoN, then the eldest surviving
adult sister/brother, then any eldest surviving sibling of the former Crown (MoN).
Royal family closest in link with the Queen shall act as acting Crown.
The decision shall be taken by the Government Council in consultation
with Archbishop in consonance with the traditions of Crown.
The succession to the vacant office shall be determined by the acting
Queen in consultation with the Government in Council and the
Archbishop in Council within 10 days.
7. The succession to the Queen’s office shall be determined ordinarily by
two aspects – primogeniture and merit. The process of Queen’s
succession decision making has to be followed as per the traditions.2
8. All the prerogatives, traditions, rules, customs in relation to the Queen’s
office shall continue in force unless specifically abrogated by the
Constitution.

Article 51
1. There shall be a President.
2. This position shall be adorned by the spouse of Crown.
Provided that in the eventuality of divorce, sickness, death or other
reason, the spouse of Crown is unable to fulfil his duty, then such shall be
fulfilled by Father of Nation as acting President until the Crown appoints
new President in consultation with both Houses of Parliament.
3.

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As per tradition, the sons and
CHAPTER II
THE
ADMINISTRATORS

ARTICLE 234

The Administrators of the United Consortium of Ganges (UCG) shall include


but not limited to the District Magistrates (DMs), Governors, Lieutenant
Governor General (LGG) and their respective council members.3
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Every person who, by virtue of power granted by the Constitution of UCG or power devolved from
DM, Governor or LGG, works in a manner which relates or which aids the administration is said to be
an Administrator duly recognised by law. Given that such recognition shall have to be approved by
the official Administrators (DM, Governor, or LGG).
ARTICLE 235

DISTRICT MAGISTRATE

1. There shall be a district magistrate for every district in the country.


2. Notwithstanding anything said in the foregoing provisions, the Governor
may in consultation with RPAA4 appoint one DM for two districts in an
event of dearth of worthy candidate for the position.
3. The DM shall be responsible to maintain law and public order in his
district.
4. The DM shall be a member of council of the Governor under whose state
his district comes. For instance, if X is DM of district G.B. Nagar which
is in Uttar Pradesh state whose Governor is Y, then X is in the council of
Y.
5. Procedure of appointment of District Magistrate

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) 5 shall, after every two years,
conduct an extensive examination including written and interview across the
nation for selection of successful candidates.

The successful candidates shall be sent for training for a period of one year.
During training, if the authority6 feels that the candidate is not suitable for the
responsibilities of the esteemed post of DM then the authority may write a letter
recording the reasons of such belief to the Vice President. If the Vice President
accepts the application, the candidate then is barred from further training. 7 The
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Royal Panel for Administration of Administrators
5
UPSC is a constitutional body headed by Vice President. The UPSC comes under the authority of
the Education Department which comes exclusively under the Vice President. Further, the UPSC shall
have all rights to regulate and make rules under this provision so as to enable a well efficient
examination.
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The authority, in this context, refers to the principal/ head/ vice-chancellor of the institution under
which the candidates are being trained.
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However, the candidate has right of audience before the Vice President to give his side of opinion in
the matter.
decision of the Vice President shall be final. The action of the Vice-President
being of prerogative administrative nature is not subject to question in any court
of law except when administrative prejudice is proved.

The trained candidates shall be then put on probation for a period of one year
that is, they shall be given the position of probationary member of Council to
the District Magistrate. After successful completion of probation, the
probationary council member shall then be elevated to the position of the
Council member to the DM.

After serving five years as the council member to the DM, the council member
shall then be promoted to the post of District Magistrate.

The person appointed as DM shall be offered membership to council of the


Governor according to the preference and availability of vacancies.

6. There shall be a Royal Panel for administration of Administrators


(RPAA)8 which shall be responsible for overall administration of
administrators including but not limited to issues like transfer, promotion,
appeals against disciplinary proceedings, termination of service etc.
7. A DM may be transferred on various bases which are request by the DM
to RPAA with apt reasons, request by the Governor to RPAA or any other
valid reasons which the RPAA may deem fit and lawful.
8. Every DM shall be subjected to a dynamic system of evaluation for him
which shall be perused by the RPAA for procedures like transfers,

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The RPAA shall include the Queen, the President, the Vice President, the Father of Nation and the
Mother of Nation.
promotion etc. The evaluation assessment shall be of 100 points whose
procedure is as follows:
a. Voting or feedback system – the RPAA shall ensure that public9 is
able to give feedback of the ruling DM after every two years. The
feedback system must include these two questions “do you want the
serving DM to be the DM of your district for two more years?” and
“are you happy with the administration of the present DM”. The
voting results shall constitute 50 points. The Feedback questionnaire
must ask the voter to rate the DM at scale of 10* (or any other
convenient scale) for only the matters/subjects which are under his
jurisdiction.
b. Court decisions – if any court of law has given a negative opinion
against the ruling DM or against the administration as a whole. If yes,
then 0 points and if no, then +20 points.
c. Feedback from the Governor – his feedback shall have a weightage of
10 points.
d. Overall assessment of Queen – the Queen shall give points based on
her observation of the above test parameters and her own discretion.
This shall constitute 20 marks.
e. Further, the RPAA may make new rules or amend the existing
regulations subject to confirmation from at least a majority of House
of Administrators.
9. The District Magistrate shall be responsible for following subjects in his
district and therefore shall have power to make rules, orders and
regulations to that effect:10

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Here, public refers to the people included in the territory of which the respective DM is responsible
for maintenance of law and public order.
10
Unless explicitly provided in the subject, the power to make rule/regulations in that subject shall be
vested in the hands of DM. Provided that such power shall be liable to be constrained by the Governor
if such order/decision seems contradictory to the interest of State or of general public at large.
a. Public order11: Including the use of the District Police and other task
forces under the District Superintendent of Police (DSP).12
b. Collection of various fees taken in all courts under district jurisdiction:
the DM shall be responsible for collection of all the fees which are
taken in all courts in the district.
c. Local Government: for the purpose of encouraging self-government,
the DM may upon his discretion provide a framework for functioning
of local government at village, municipality or city level. He may for
this purpose, form various boards/committees/ societies/ unions/
corporations etc. upon his assessment of the needs of a particular
village/city/municipality.
d. Public health/sanitation/hospitals/dispensaries: the DM shall be
responsible for proper maintenance of government hospitals in his
district. However, in event of any epidemic or pandemic wherein there
is probable cause that the epidemic is likely to affect other districts as
well, then the Governor may order directions to the DM to act in the
manner as prescribed by him and may further provide funds to the
concerned district for fast and efficient relief.

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To the extent that it does not in the reasonable view of Governor infringe or disturbs the public
order or administration of rest of the state. In a circumstance where an order/decision of the DM
seems repugnant to the existing order/decision made by Governor under state/union legislation then
that order shall be void to that extent.
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Every Police Officer not above the rank of DSP shall oblige the orders of DM to the extent they are
lawful. Upon any dispute between the Police Officer (not above the rank of DSP) and DM wherein
DM thinks that the said Police Officer has not followed his lawful orders then the DM may, upon
citing reasons, initiate disciplinary proceedings against such police officer which include suspension,
transfer, freeze of promotion but no police officer appointed by UPSC shall be expelled from duty
unless UPSC or court of competent jurisdiction orders such. However, such disciplinary proceeding
shall have to be notified to the National Police Administration Department headed by National Police
Commandant Officer which may upon departmental inquiry execute the said disciplinary proceeding
or dismiss the charges and vindicate the police officer with explaining reasons to the pertinent DM.
However, if DM is not satisfied by such explanations, then he may order administrative prerogative
and ask the NPAD for transfer of the said police officer from his constituency. Provided that the
departmental inquiry executed by NPAD shall be done by a committee including three of the Deputy
National Police Commandant Officers and two retired judges who were before retirement positioned
not below the rank of District Judge.
e. Places of Pilgrimage: the DM shall ensure peaceful atmosphere
around all the places of pilgrimages for peaceful organization of all
the activities related to the religion of that pilgrimage.
f. Relief for the disabled and specially abled: the DM may, in
accordance with the existing legislations of the State and the budget of
the district, provide various types of relief which include economic,
social and medical to the disabled and specially abled people.
g. Burial and burial grounds; cremation and cremation grounds.
h. Agriculture: Promoting agricultural education among farmers;
promotion of use of pests/ herbicides/ new agricultural techniques;
prevention of plant diseases; subject to the legislation of the State.
i. Preservation, protection and improvement of stock and prevention of
animal diseases; veterinary training and practice.
j. Inns and inn-keepers.
k. Theatres and dramatic performances; sports, entertainments and
amusements activities happening and affecting the district only.
a. Offences against any laws with respect to any of the subjects under
the jurisdiction of the district.
l. Transfer of property other than agricultural land; registration of deeds
and documents.
m. Contracts including partnership, agency, contracts of carriage, and
other special forms of contracts, but not including contracts relating to
agricultural land.13
n. Vagrancy; nomadic and migratory tribes

ARTICLE 236

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Subject to the legislations of the State and of the House of Administrators.
GOVERNOR

1. There shall be a governor for every state in the country.


2. The Governor shall be responsible to maintain law and order in his state.
3. Procedure for appointment of Governor

A Governor for as state is selected from the pool of the District


Magistrates currently serving under the government of that state.
4. The Governor shall be responsible for following subjects in his State and
therefore shall have power to make rules, orders, legislations and
regulations to that effect:
b. Public order: The Governor shall be solely responsible for the proper
maintenance of public order in his state. 14 Notwithstanding anything
mentioned in the foregoing provisions, the Governor shall have
powers to supersede the order/direction/decision of a DM of a
particular district if such order/direction/decision of the DM seems to
Governor to be in conflict with the interests of State or general public
at large in the district, state.
c. Police: The Governor, for the purpose of maintenance of public order
in his state or for any other purpose required to administer the state
efficiently shall be entitled to use the State Police and any other task
force under the State Police Commissioner. Provided that, the orders
given to Police shall serve a lawful purpose. The Governor is
empowered to undertake disciplinary proceedings against any such
disobedience of his orders by any police officer serving the state.15
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The Governor is solely responsible for the maintenance of public order in his state and shall have
exclusive sovereignty in such regard. Nonetheless, the Lieutenant Governor General (LGG) may in
the circumstance wherein there is/are reasonable cause(s) to believe that an/a order/direction/decision
of a Governor is in conflict with the interest of nation, may disturb the public order of other states,
may affect the sovereignty of the nation or is likely to effect the relations of UCG with other
countries, order an OVERRULING in order to make the impugned order correct.
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Such disciplinary proceeding shall include suspension, freeze of promotion, and transfer of the
defaulting police officer. However, such disciplinary proceeding shall have to be notified to the
d. Collection of various fees and fines taken in the High Court.
e. Public Health/sanitation/dispensary/hospital: Subject to provision of
section 8(d), the Governor may provide directions to a DM in the
circumstances which warrant intrusion by the Governor like an
epidemic or pandemic which is likely to affect the public health of
other districts or the general public at large.
f. Prisons, reformatories, Borstal institutions.
g. Libraries, museums and other similar institutions other than
educational institutions controlled or financed by the State
Government; ancient or historical monuments and records of historical
importance other than those declared by or under law made by the
House of Administrators to be of national importance.
h. Land, that is to say, rights in or over land, land tenures including the
relation of landlord and tenant, and the collection of rents; transfer and
alienation of agricultural land; land improvement and agricultural
loans; colonization.16
i. Cinemas subject to the rights of decision to the LGG with regard to
airing of movies/ advertisements/ short films/ documentaries etc. in
the entire nation or the movies airing in the State but are likely to
affect the interests of nation.
j. Betting and gambling.
k. Works, lands and buildings vested in or in the possession of the State.
l. State Public services, State public service commission17
m. Offences against any laws with respect to any of the subjects under the
jurisdiction of the State.

NPAD for execution of such proceeding. The NPAD may upon departmental investigation execute
the proceeding or dismiss it citing reasons to the Governor. However, the Governor may, if not
satisfied with the explanations and reasons of such dismissal of proceeding then he may invoke
Administrative prerogative and order the NPAD for transfer of the said police officer from the state.
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Subject to the legislation of the House of Administrators.
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The State Public Service Commission shall act in consonance with the UPSC.
n. Marriage and divorce; infants and minors; adoption; wills, intestacy
and succession; joint family and partition.
o. Lunacy and mental deficiency, including places for the reception or
treatment of lunatics and mental deficient.
5. Removal
The Governor may be removed for gross violation of constitutional
provisions, fundamental rights, corruption, acting against national interest
or security, contempt of court in following ways:
a. By Lieutenant Governor General: the LGG being the supervising head
of the Administrators is empowered to remove a Governor on above
mentioned any of the reasons. Provided that LGG may remove a
governor only after the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee submits an
investigation report18 to the LGG. However, the report is for
consultation purpose and may be set aside while making decision by
LGG.
Provided that the decision of LGG being an administrative decision, it
must follow the established principles of Natural Justice.
b. By Court of Jurisdiction: Any court of Jurisdiction over the Governor
may pass an order of removal of a Governor on account of any of the
above mentioned reasons.
c. By Royal Order: The Royal Order may remove the Governor after
citing any of the above mentioned reasons on part of the Governor.

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Such investigation report shall be a public document.
ARTICLE 237
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR GENERAL
1. The Lieutenant Governor General shall be responsible for
following subjects in The Union Consortium of Ganges and
therefore shall have power to make rules, orders, legislations and
regulations to that effect:
a. Salaries and allowances of the administrators, committees made
under the order of any of the administrator, council of
administrators.
b. Prerogatives of the House of Administrators19; enforcement of
attendance of persons for giving evidence of producing
documents before committees of the House of Administrators.
c. Amendment regarding any of the legislations previously
passed by the House of Administrators.
d. Criminal law.
e. Criminal procedure.
f. Preventive detention
g. Removal from one State to another State of prisoners, accused
persons and persons subjected to preventive detention.
h. Evidence and oaths; recognition of laws, public acts and
records, and judicial proceedings.
i. Civil procedure, including all matters included in the Code of
Civil Procedure at the commencement of this Constitution,
limitation and arbitration.
j. Forests
k. Protection of wild animals and birds in the territory of UCG
except the territories belonging to the states.

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This prerogative shall be subject to the final call of the President who is the Head of the Parliament.
l. Welfare of labour including conditions of work, provident
funds, employers' liability, workmen's compensation, invalidity
and old age pensions and maternity benefits.
2. The Lieutenant Governor General, being the head of
Administrators, is responsible for supervision of all the
administrators and hence is empowered to take disciplinary and/or
corrective actions as may be required to maintain the law and order
situation of the nation.
Provided that, any action of termination of service by LGG of an
administrator may only be taken after an inquiry has been
conducted by the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee upon the
request of LGG.
Provided further that such decision has been taken following
Principles of Natural Justice.
3. REMOVAL
The Lieutenant Governor General may be removed from his
service for gross violation of constitutional provisions,
fundamental rights, corruption, acting against national interest or
security, contempt of court in following ways:
a. By Parliament: If the President, either suo motto or upon
application of any Parliamentarian, is of the opinion that an
inquiry should be set against the LGG on account of any of the
reasons mentioned above, then the President shall refer the
matter to the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee to investigate
into the matter within 1month. The investigation report shall be
presented to the Parliament and the LGG shall be allowed to
rebut any or all of the findings of the report. After the
presentation of the LGG, if any, the President shall seek for a
Vote on whether a Vote for no confidence is to be used against
the LGG. If more than half of the Parliamentarians support the
Vote then, President shall move on with the Vote of No
Confidence against the LGG which shall only be deemed passed
when two-third of the majority of the members of
Parliamentarians vote for No Confidence vote. The resolution,
then shall be presented to the Queen who shall sign the
resolution, thus officially impeaching the LGG.
b. By Supreme Court: the Supreme Court, upon finding of the
above mentioned reasons on part of LGG may remove LGG
from his post.
c. By Royal Order: a Royal Order upon the above mentioned
reasons may remove the LGG from his post.
d. Resignation: the LGG may himself resign from his post
addressing his letter to the Queen and the President.
Provided that, Lieutenant Governor General being a Constitutional
post, removal of LGG should be taken as a last recourse.

Article 352
Proclamation of National Emergency
(1) The Queen, upon application by the Lieutenant Governor General or suo
motto may upon perusal of facts and circumstances issue Proclamation of
National Emergency through a Royal Order issued to that effect.
(2) The National Emergency shall begin immediately after the Royal Order
is notified in the Official Gazette of United Consortium of Ganges.

Article 353
Effect of National Emergency
(1) During the National Emergency, both the houses of Parliament shall
remain in abeyance. Provided that, if the Parliament is in session while
the Official Gazette of the Proclamation of Emergency is notified then the
National Emergency shall embark only after the session of the Parliament
is duly over.
(2) The machinery of the Nation except the Judiciary shall be completely
vested in the hands of the Queen. The Queen shall exercise such powers
through the administrators.
(3) The national emergency shall not have any effect on the fundamental and
constitutional rights provided by this constitution to the citizens of
Ganges and every citizen shall have right to move the High Court or the
Supreme Court for enforcement of his rights.

Article 354
Tenure of Emergency
(1) The National Emergency, after the date of notification through official
gazette shall remain for six months unless the Queen herself rescinds it.
(2) After the period of six months, the President shall convene the House of
Administrators to cast a Vote of Approval with simple majority of the
house. If the Vote of Approval is passed with simple majority in the
house of administrators then the President shall refer the bill to the House
of Directors to cast a Vote of Approval with simple majority. If both the
houses pass the Vote of Approval with simple majority, the tenure of
National Emergency exceeds to one more year, unless the Queen herself
rescinds such emergency.
(3) After the period of one more year, the President shall convene the Joint
House of the Parliament and shall seek a Vote for Dismissal of the
National Emergency with the simple majority of the Joint House. If the
bill is passed then the tenure of Emergency exceeds to one and a half
years and if the bill is defeated then the Vote of Dismissal after getting
duly signed by the President, causes the National Emergency to end with
immediate effect.
THE COURTS
The structure of Judiciary in United Consortium of Ganges shall consist of Civil and Criminal
courts, district courts, High courts, Supreme Court and the Royal Court of Honour.
Civil courts
A civil court shall be presided over by a Judicial magistrate or Sub-divisional Judicial
Magistrate. This court shall have the jurisdication
THE

DIRECTORS
The Directors shall be the authorities responsible for every financial
activity in the United Consortium of Ganges. They shall be elected by
the Royal Panel for Administration of Directors (RPAD) which shall
have same composition as RPAA from the House of Administrators.

The function of the directors is to regulate the functioning of the all


financial institutions, economy related institutions, industries any such
institution mentioned in Schedule, in all the ways so as to promote
fair market conditions and welfare of consumers, capitalists and
workers in the economy of the nation.

Eligibility

A member of House of Administrators (Senate) shall be eligible for


promotion to House of Directors (Congress) if:

(1) He has completed 12 years as Senator and/or


(2) He is a qualified MBA and MF degree holder.
Powers of director
1) To administer the industries of which he is in charge in regard to
whether they are following the norms, rules and regulations or
not. If not, then imposing fines and pursuing other disciplinary
proceedings.
2) To give licences to industries of which he is in charge.
3) To grant funds to the industries to a certain level fixed time to
time by the Congress.
4) Other functions as time to time devolved by the Viceroy through
laws.

Viceroy
Within three days of institution of Congress, the Directors shall
choose within themselves five people for the post of Viceroy to the
President who shall send them in a sealed letter to the RPAD for their
due consideration and result. The RPAD shall select Viceroy
considering the performance of the Directors, their time-scale and
other.

Powers and functions of Viceroy


The Viceroy shall be the head of The National Treasury and the
Reserve Bank of Ganges. The powers and functions of the Viceroy
shall include but not limited to:
1) Any financial transaction performed by Government of UCG
shall be in the name of Viceroy and therefore shall have
legitimacy upon recognition by the Office of Viceroy only. The
office of Viceroy for the purpose of examining the financial
transactions of any institution, person legal or natural,
organisation located, residing or having any sort of financial
transaction within the territory of Ganges, may, upon discretion
employ financial accountants and other staff as required.
2) Every financial bill shall have to be required to have consent of
Viceroy irrespective of it getting requisite majority.
3) Budget allocations to the Government shall be a matter of
concurrence for both the houses of Parliament.
Article 395: REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ARCHBISHOP
(ROA)
Every court of law shall have a representative of the Archbishop appointed by
the Archbishop to represent the interest of religion of the land and aid the court
in solving disputes related to conflict among different religions or between
religion and law. The Representative of the Archbishop shall have right of
audience in the court of law to which he is appointed by Archbishop in all
matters where religion is a subject matter. The court shall give due
consideration to the advice of the ROA in deciding cases involving religion as a
subject matter.
Also, RoA shall have right of audience in both the houses of parliament to
represent the interest of religion of the land and interests of the Holy
Gangotrinagar Shrine and Gangotrinagar.

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