Issues with Montague-Chelmsford Reforms

• There was no fulfillment of the demand for responsible government.
• Though a measure of power devolved on the provinces with the demarcation of subjects between center and provinces, the structure continued to be unitary and centralized.
• Dyarchy in the provincial sector failed.
• The governor-general was given the power to secure the enactment of laws that he considered essential for the safety, tranquility, or interests of British India, or any part of British India.
• The Indian legislature under the Act of 1919 was only a non-sovereign law-making body and was powerless before the executive in all spheres of governmental activity.