Dehradun:The drafting committee under the chairmanship of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, after independence prepared the draft of the country's constitution to prepare a written bundle. The Survey of India, Dehradun was chosen to print the Constitution. The world's largest written constitution was accepted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949. After this, the responsibility of printing the copy of this historic constitution was given to the Survey of India. Where the first 1000 copies of the Constitution were printed. The first printed copy of the Constitution of India is still preserved in the Survey of India. We got independence on 15th August 1947, but we did not have any constitution to run the country.
The Constitution was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 26 November 1949 to form an independent republic and make laws and it came into force on 26 January 1950. The special thing is that the first copy of the constitution was hand-written by Prem Bihari Narayan Raizada who also designed all the sides of the paper.