(b) The Constituent Assembly, on 29 August, 1947, set up a Drafting Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar to prepare a Draft Constitution for India. The Constituent Assembly took two years, eleven months and seventeen days to complete its historic task of drafting the Constitution for Independent India. The Constitution of India was adopted on 26 November, 1949 and the honourable members appended their signatures to it on 24 January, 1950. In all, 284 members actually signed the Constitution.