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- Its major innovation (suggested by V. P. Menon) was the immediate transfer of power based on grant of dominion status thus obviating the wait for an agreement in Constituent Assembly on a new political structure.
- The plan suggested for Punjab and Bengal assemblies decide on the partition (partition was decided for these two provinces). Sindh was to take its own decision (it went with Pakistan) and a referendum was to be held in NFWP and Sylhet district (they also favoured Pakistan).
- Independence of Princely states was ruled out and they were to join either India or Pakistan. Bengal independence was ruled out, and accession of Hyderabad to Pakistan was ruled out (Mountbatten supported the Congress on this).
- The date of freedom was set to be 15th August 1947.
- For the transitional period, governments were to be conducted following the GOI Act, 1935.
- A boundary commission under Radcliffe was organized to delimit the boundaries between India and Pakistan.
