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Working of Institutions — Social Studies STD 9 — Question

CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9Social StudiesWorking of Institutions3 Marks
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What does executive mean?
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Answer

  1. At different levels of any government, we find functionaries who take day-to-day decisions but do not exercise supreme powers on behalf of the people.
  2. All those functionaries are collectively known as executive.
  3. They are called executive because they are incharge of the ‘execution’ of the policies of the government. Thus, when we talk about ‘the government’ we usually mean ‘executive’

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