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Question
What are the Duties and functions of Prime Minister of India?
Solution
Duties and functions of the Prime Minister are given below
- The Prime Minister decides the rank of his ministers and distributes various departments among them.
- He decides the dates and the agenda of the meeting of the Cabinet which he presides.
- He supervises the work of various ministers
- The Prime Minister acts as a link between the President and the Council of Ministers.
- He is the leader of the nation and the chief spokesperson of the country.
- He is the head of the Cabinet and other Ministers are his colleagues.
- As the leader of the nation, the Prime Minister represents our nation at all international conferences like the commonwealth, etc.
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