Parliamentary: After the reorganization, the discussions on the Parliamentary Standing Committees started. India News – Times of India

New Delhi: parliamentary Standing committees have returned to work after being reconstituted earlier this month. The House panel will have a hectic schedule in the winter session, with a series of meetings scheduled this week to complete pending tasks, including finalizing the report, and to nail down the new agenda for the committees in the current year. Parliament session.
Key meetings to be held this week include the Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury-led Public Accounts Committee, in which Defense Ministry officials will appear before it on the subject of “Provision, Procurement and Issues of High Altitude, Clothing, Equipment, Ration and Accommodation”. on Wednesday. The PAC will meet again on October 21 to hear statements by the ministries of petroleum and natural gas, coal and education on the subject “Construction of toilets in schools by CPSEs”. The PAC will circulate its draft report (of the topics discussed earlier) to the members for their consideration and adoption.
The Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas, on the other hand, will consider ‘Pricing, marketing and supply of petroleum products including natural gas’, ‘litigation involving oil PSUs’, ‘contract management and transparency in procurement procedures in oil’ . ‘Energy security with specific reference to hydrocarbon resources and electric vehicles’ and a review of oil refineries for testing during 2021-22.
On the other hand, the Shashi Tharoor-led Standing Committee on Information Technology, like the Bhartruhari Mahtab-led House Panel on Labour, will meet this week to strengthen the examining committees’ subjects in 2021-22. As per procedure, once the committees finalize the subjects, the selected agenda will be presented to the concerned presiding officer – in this case the Speaker of the Lok Sabha – for his approval before the subjects are notified in the parliamentary bulletin. Only after this process is complete can concrete discussions on the topics begin.
Rajya Sabha-led standing committees on Home, Health and Family Welfare, Commerce, ‘Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports’ and Industry will also hold meetings for ‘future programmes’.
On the other hand, the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Personal Data Protection, which has been extended till the winter session of Parliament, will also hold a series of meetings this week to take forward the section-by-section discussion of the proposed amendments. PDP Bill in comparison to Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 introduced in Parliament.
The House panel has resumed its work after a gap of one month due to the delay in the reconstitution of the House committees. The tenure of the previous committees ended on September 12, while those of the presiding officers Rajya Sabha And the Lok Sabha reconstituted the panel on 9 October. While the chairpersons of most of the committees were retained, BJP MPs Sushil Kumar Modi The new chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice has been appointed in place of Bhupendra Yadav, who was appointed a minister in the last cabinet reshuffle.
Every year 24 department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees are constituted. Each panel consists of 21 members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha. Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu The parties were appealed to nominate their members to various panels based on their interest and attendance.

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