Constituent Assembly and Making of the Constitution

      The Cabinet Mission envisaged the establishment of a Constituent Assembly to frame a Constitution for the country. Members of the Constituent Assembly were elected by the Provincial Legislative Assemblies.

Each province and each Indian state were allotted seats in proportion of its population, roughly in the ratio of one to a million. The seats so ascertained were distributed among the main communities in each Province. The main communities recognized were Sikh, Muslim and General.

Important committees of the Constituent Assembly and their chairman

S.	Name of the Committee	Chairman
1.	Committee on the Rules of procedure	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2.	Steering Committee
3.	Finance and Staff Committee
4.	Ad hoc committee on the National Flag
5.	Union Constitution Committee	Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
6.	Union Powers Committee
7.	State Committee
8.	Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights, Minorities and  Tribal and Excluded Areas	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
9.	Drafting Committee	Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
10.	Credential Committee	Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar
11.	House Committee	B. Oattabhi Sitaramayya
12.	Order of Business Committee	K. M. Munshi
13.	Committee on the functions of the Constituent assembly	G.V Mavalankar
14.	Minorities sub- Committee	H. C. Mookherjee
15.	Fundamental rights sub-committee	J. B. Kripalani
16.	North –East Frontier tribal Areas and Assam Excluded & partially Excluded Areas Sub - committee	Gpinath Bardoloi
17.	Excluded and Partially Excluded Areas (other  than those in Assam) sub- Committee	A.      V. Thakkar

The total number of members of the Constituent Assembly was 385, of whom 93 were representatives from the Indian States and 292 from the Provinces (British India).