Welfare Governance and Rule of Law--An overview in NE States of India

Abstract

The constitution of India, a dynamic national legal document, was a by-product of the mid-twentieth century and its underlining philosophy had also been meaningfully shaped during the freedom movement against the British colonial regime.  It elucidates its cherished goals in the preamble and also envisages the constitutional obligations to promote a welfare state for which the legitimate government ought to take adequate measures in creating an orderly society based on economic, social cultural and political justice.  In this regard, the responsible government has its own constitutional and statutory mechanisms to regulate and control governmental powers inter alia relationship with its citizens in which rule of law and constitutionalism remain as the only antithesis for arbitrary and capricious powers of government. The paper focuses on social, political and legal issues faced by the citizens in a democratically set up governance.