Parliamentary

Committees of India

The Government of India has appointed a

number of committees,

Parliamentary committees
The Parliamentary committees are
established to study and deal with various
matters that cannot be directly handled by
the legislature due to their volume. They
also monitor the functioning of the
executive branch.[1]

The Parliamentary committees are of two

kinds - Standing or permanent committees
and Ad hoc committees. The former are
elected or appointed periodically and they
work on a continuous basis. The latter are
created on an ad hoc basis as the need
arises and they are dissolved after they
complete the task assigned to them.[1]

Standing Committees

A Standing Committee is a committee

consisting of Members of Parliament. It is
a permanent and regular committee which
is constituted from time to time according
to the provisions of an Act of Parliament
or Rules of Procedure and Conduct of
Business. The work done by the Indian
Parliament is not only voluminous but also
of a complex nature, hence a good deal of
its work is carried out in these
Parliamentary Committees.

Standing Committees are of the following

kinds :

1. Financial Standing Committees (FSC)

2. Department Related Standing
Committees (DRSC)
3. Others Standing Committees (OSC)
Financial Standing Committees

There are three important Standing

Committees dealing with financial affairs.
These committees involve further sub-
committees.

1. Public Accounts Committee – It

examines various expenditure reports and
accounts under the purview of the
Parliament. Till 1966-67, a senior member
of the ruling party used to be appointed by
the Speaker as Chairman of the
Committee. In 1967, however, for the first
time, a member from the Opposition in Lok
Sabha, was appointed as the chairperson
of the committee by the Speaker of the
Lok Sabha. This practice continues till
date. Its functions are as follows :
2. Estimates Committee – The committee
on Estimates, constituted for the first time
in 1950, is a committee consisting of 30
members, elected every year by the Lok
Sabha from amongst its Members.
3. Public Undertakings Committee – It
analyses the accounts, and workings of
the state owned PSU firms. It also keeps a
check on the disinvestment policies of the
various PSUs.
Finance Committees Details for the 16th Lok Sabha (2014 - 2019) ; Updated as of August 2018
[2][3][4][5]

Nominated
S.No. Committee Chairperson Composition Tenure Sub-Committees
/ Elected

Sub-Committee – I : Non

Compliance in Timely
submission of Action
Taken Notes on the Non-
selected Audit
Elected
Paragraphs & Excess
Public 22 members from Lok
MP Expenditure
Accounts Sabha &
1 Mallikarjun (15 LS + 7 1 Year
Rajya Sub-Committee – II :
Committee Kharge RS)
Sabha Direct and Indirect Taxes
MPs Sub-Committee – III :
Implementation of
Recommendations of
PAC Sub-Committee –
IV : Railways

2 Estimates MP Murli 30 members 1 Year Elected Sub-Committee – I :

Committee Manohar (LS) from Lok Drought situation in the
Joshi Sabha country pertaining to the
MPs Ministry of Agriculture
and Farmers Welfare

Sub-Committee – II :
Education with special
reference to the recent
development regarding
autonomy in Education

Elected
22 members from Lok
Public
MP Shanta Sabha &
3 Undertakings (15 LS + 7 1 Year *Currently None*
Kumar Rajya
Committee RS)
Sabha
MP
 MPs

Department-related Standing
Committees

During the year 1989 - 8th Lok Sabha the

Rules Committee considered and
approved a proposal that three Subject
Committees, on (i) Agriculture; (ii)
Environment & Forests; and (iii) Science &
Technology. The rules relating to these
Committees were finally approved by the
House and the Committees were formally
constituted with effect from 18 August,
1989.

The Reports of Rules Committees of the

10th Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha adopted
by the two Houses on 29 March, 1993
paved the way for the setting up of the 17
Departmentally Related Standing
Committees covering under their
jurisdiction all the Ministries/Departments
of the Union Government.

These DRSCs replaced the earlier three

Subject Committees constituted in August,
1989. The 17 Departmentally Related
Standing Committees were formally
constituted with effect from April, 1993.
After experiencing the working of the
DRSC system for over a decade, the
system was re-structured in July, 2004
wherein the number of DRSCs was
increased from 17 to 24. Till 13th Lok
Sabha, each of these Standing
Committees used to consist of 45
members— 30 nominated by the Speaker
from amongst the members of Lok Sabha
and 15 members nominated by the
Chairman, Rajya Sabha from amongst the
members of Rajya Sabha. However, with
re-structuring of DRSCs in July, 2004 each
DRSC consists of 31 members—21 from
Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha.

There are 24 Department-related Standing

Committees (DRSCs). Each of these
committees have 31 members - 21 from
Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha.
These members are to be nominated by
the Speaker of Lok Sabha or the Chairman
of Rajya Sabha respectively. The term of
office of these committees does not
exceed one year. These committees are
serviced either by Lok Sabha secretariat or
the Rajya Sabha secretariat depending on
who has appointed the chairman of that
committee.
Department-related Standing Committees Details for the 16th Lok Sabha (2014 - 2019) ;
Updated as of August 2018 [5][6][7]
Chairman
S.No. Committee Ministries Chairperson Tenure nominated
by

Agriculture and
Committee on Farmers Welfare MP Hukmdev Speaker of
1 [8]
1 year
Agriculture Food Processing Narayan Yadav Lok Sabha
Industries

Committee on
MP Anandrao Speaker of
2 Chemicals and Chemicals and Fertilizers 1 year
Adsul Lok Sabha
Fertilizers [9]

Coal
Committee on Coal and MP Rakesh Speaker of
3 [10]
Mines 1 year
Steel Singh Lok Sabha
Steel

Chairman
Committee on MP Naresh
4 Commerce and Industry 1 year of Rajya
Commerce Gujral
Sabha

MP Kalraj Speaker of
5 Committee on Defence Defence 1 year
Mishra Lok Sabha

6 Committee on Energy Power MP 1 year Speaker of

Kambhampati Lok Sabha

New and Renewable Haribabu

Energy

Committee on External MP Shashi Speaker of

7 External Affairs 1 year
Affairs Tharoor Lok Sabha

Finance

Planning (NITI Aayog)

Corporate Affairs MP Veerappa Speaker of

8 Committee on Finance 1 year
Moily Lok Sabha
Statistics and
Programme
Implementation
 Implementation

Committee on Food,
Consumer Affairs, Food MP J. C. Speaker of
9 Consumer Affairs and 1 year
and Public Distribution Divakar Reddy Lok Sabha
Public Distribution

Chairman
Committee on Health Health and Family MP Ram Gopal
10 1 year of Rajya
and Family Welfare Welfare Yadav
Sabha

Home Affairs Chairman

Committee on Home MP P.
11 Development of North 1 year of Rajya
Affairs Chidambaram
Eastern Region Sabha

Human Resource
Development

Skill Development and

Entrepreneurship MP Chairman
Committee on Human
12 Satyanarayan 1 year of Rajya
Resource Development Women and Child Jatiya Sabha
Development

Youth Affairs and

Sports

Heavy Industries and

Public Enterprises MP Chairman
13 Committee on Industry Ramchandra 1 year of Rajya
Micro, Small and Prasad Singh Sabha
Medium Enterprises

14 Committee on Communications MP Anurag 1 year Speaker of

Information Technology Thakur Lok Sabha
Electronics and
Information
Technology

Information and
Broadcasting

Labour and
MP Kirit Speaker of
15 Committee on Labour Employment 1 year
Somaiya Lok Sabha
Textiles

C itt Law and Justice

 Committee on Law and Justice
Chairman
Personnel, Public Personnel, Public MP Bhupender
16 1 year of Rajya
Governances, Law and Grievances and Yadav
Sabha
Justice Pensions

Committee on
Petroleum and Natural MP Pralhad Speaker of
17 Petroleum and Natural 1 year
Gas Joshi Lok Sabha
Gas

MP Sudip Speaker of
18 Committee on Railways Railways 1 year
Bandyopadhyay Lok Sabha

Rural Development

Committee on Rural Panchayati Raj MP Ponnusamy Speaker of

19 1 year
Development Venugopal Lok Sabha
Drinking Water and
Sanitation

Science and
Technology

Atomic Energy
Committee on Science & Chairman
MP Anand
20 Technology and Space 1 year of Rajya
Sharma
Environment & Forests Sabha
Earth Sciences

Environment, Forests
and Climate Change

21 Committee on Social Social Justice and MP Ramesh 1 year Speaker of

Justice and Empowerment Bais Lok Sabha
Empowerment Tribal Affairs

Minority Affairs

Civil Aviation

Culture
Chairman
Committee on Transport, Road Transport and MP Derek
22 1 year of Rajya
Tourism and Culture Highways O’Brien
Sabha
Shipping

Tourism

Urban Development
 p
Committee on Urban MP Pinaki Speaker of
23 Housing and Urban 1 year
Development Misra Lok Sabha
Poverty Alleviation

Water Resources, River

Committee on Water MP Rajiv Speaker of
24 Development and Ganga 1 year
Resources Pratap Rudy Lok Sabha
Rejuvenation

Other Standing Committees

Other Standing Committees Details for the 16th Lok Sabha (2014 - 2019) ; Updated as of
August 2018 [5][11]
Nominated
S.No. Committee Chairperson Composition Tenure
/ Elected

Not fixed. May

Business Advisory MP Sumitra
1 15 members continue in office Nominated
Committee Mahajan
till reconstituted.

MP Not fixed. May

2 Committee of Privileges Meenakshi 15 members continue in office Nominated
Lekhi till reconstituted.

Committee on Absence of
MP P
3 Members from the sittings 15 members 1 Year Nominated
Karunakaran
of the House

30 members
Committee on MP Bijoya
4 (20 LS+ 10 1 Year Nominated
Empowerment of Women Chakravarty
RS)

Committee on Government MP Ramesh

5 15 members 1 Year Nominated
Assurances Pokhriyal

MP
Committee on Papers Laid
6 Chandrakant 15 members 1 Year Nominated
on the Table
Khaire

7 Committee on Petitions MP Bhagat 15 members 1 Year Nominated

Singh
Koshyari

Committee on Private
MP M
8 Members' Bills and 15 members 1 Year Nominated
Thambidurai
Resolutions

MP Dilip
Committee on Subordinate
9 Kumar 15 members 1 Year Nominated
Legislation
Gandhi

General Purposes Committee MP Sumitra

10 Varies Not fixed. Ex-Officio
** Mahajan
 MP Suresh
11 House Committee 12 members 1 Year Nominated
Angadi

15 members
Joint Committee on Offices MP Kalraj For the duration
12 (10 LS+ 5 Elected
of Profit Mishra of one Lok Sabha
RS)

15 members
Joint Committee on Salaries MP Bandaru
13 (10 LS+ 5 1 Year Nominated
and Allowance of MPs Dattatreya
RS)

9 members
MP Prem
14 Library Committee 1 Year Nominated
Das Rai (6 LS+ 3 RS)

Not fixed. May

MP Sumitra
15 Rules Committee 15 members continue in office Nominated
Mahajan
till reconstituted.

30 members
Committee on the Welfare of MP Kirit
16 Scheduled Castes & Premjibhai (20 LS+ 10 1 Year Elected
Scheduled Tribes Solanki RS)

** In each House there is a GPC. All

members are ex-officio members by virtue
of being chairmen of respective standing
committees and leaders of respective
parties.
Ad hoc Committees

As of August 2018, the following Ad-hoc

Committees are in operation:
Ad hoc Committees Details for the 16th Lok Sabha (2014 - 2019) ; Updated as of August 2018
[5][12][13]

S.No. Committee Chairperson Tenure Composition

MP Lal 15 members
1 Committee on Ethics Krishna 1 year
(15 LS )
Advani

15 members
MP A.P.
Committee on Food Management in
2 Jithender 1 Year (10 LS + 5
Parliament House Complex
Reddy RS)

For the
12 members
Committee on Installation of Portraits/Statues MP Sumitra duration of
3
of National leaders and Parliamentarians Mahajan one Lok (8 LS + 4 RS)
Sabha

Committee on MP Local Area Development MP M

4 1 Year 24 members
Scheme Thambidurai

For the
Committee on Provision of Computers to duration of
5 MP P Kumar 10 members
Members of Lok Sabha one Lok
Sabha

6 Joint Committee on Maintenance of Heritage MP Sumitra For the 10 members

Character and Development of Parliament Mahajan duration of (7 LS + 3 RS)
House Complex

one Lok
Sabha

10 members
Joint Committee on Security in Parliament MP Sumitra
7 1 Year
House Complex Mahajan (7 LS + 3 RS)

For the 18 members

MP
duration of
8 Railway Convention Committee Bhartruhari (12 LS + 6
one Lok
Mahtab RS)
Sabha

For the
Committee on Violation of Protocol Norms and MP Rayapati
duration of
 duration of
9 Contemptuous Behaviour of Government Sambasiva 15 members
one Lok
Officers with Members of Lok Sabha Rao
Sabha

**For the
Committee to Inquiry into the Improper MP Kirit
10 year 2016 9 members
Conduct of a Member Somaiya
only**

Notable Ad-hoc Committees

established by executive
order
Pre-independence
Committee Appointed in Submitted report in Mandate Recommendations

Rowlatt Committee 1918

After Independence
 Appointed Submitted
Committee Summary Report
in report in

The three-member committee was

The committee
formed by the Nehru-government to
came to the
address the public demand to
conclusion that
investigate the disappearance of
Shah Nawaz Bose was killed in a
1955 1956 Subhas Chandra Bose. The
Committee plane crash. But,
committee was led by Shah Nawaz
Suresh Chandra
Khan, and included Suresh Chandra
Bose did not agree
Bose, brother of Subhas, and S. N.
with the report.[15]
Maitra.[14]

Establishment of
Examine the working of the
Balwant Rai the scheme of
Community Development
Mehta 1957 1957 'democratic
Programme and the National
Committee decentralisation'
Extension Service
(Panchayati Raj)

The committee
submitted its report
in August 1978 and
made 132
In December 1977, the Janata
Ashok recommendations
Government appointed a committee
Mehta 1977 1978 to revive and
on Panchayati Raj institutions under
Committee strengthen the
the chairmanship of Ashoka Mehta.
declining
Panchayati Raj
system in the
country

Narasimham
Committee
on Banking 1998 1998
Sector
Reforms

Examine social, economic and

Sachar
2005 2006 educational condition of the Muslim
Committee
community of India
Srikrishna 2010 2010 The committee was formed to look
Committee into the demand for separate
on statehood for Telangana or keep the
Telangana State united in the present form,
Andhra Pradesh.

Naresh
Chandra 2012 Defense reforms
Committee

See also
List of Indian commissions

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