Imperatives for transition from parliamentary democracy to presidential democracy in India

India is a well known parliamentary democracy. In a parliamentary form of government, it is absolutely difficult to transform. The current parliamentary format for Government in India, nationally and in the states, is overburdening. It requires enormous amounts of money to pay for salaries, security, staff, residences, travels and pensions etc. to the president, prime minister, governors, chief ministers and others. It is often argued that given the nature of our politicians, presidential form of democracy will be disastrous. It is also argued that the Indian constitution is a very strong constitution among all other countries. So instead of practicing any new form of government, efforts should be made to remove the discrepancies of the present form and bring an improvement in it because if we go for presidential form all decisions may go in one hand which may not lead to fruitful results. In this background an attempt shall be made in the present research work to analyse whether India truly needs a presidential form of government. Attempt shall also be made to analyse adaptability of Presidential democracy in the socio-economic conditions prevailing in India.