The independence and impartiality are ensured by:
- Security of tenure: Removal by effective majority, with 50 members’ support for motion.
- Salaries and allowances fixed by Parliament and charged on Consolidated Fund of India (non-votable).
- Work and conduct not discussed or criticised in Lok Sabha except on substantive motion.
- Powers of regulating procedure not subject to Court jurisdiction.
- Impartiality through casting vote only in case of tie.
- High position in the order of precedence (seventh rank, higher than cabinet ministers except PM/DPM).