🔆PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEES
▪️Why in news?
✅Due to the pandemic, significant amount of the tenure of Parliamentary Standing Committees (PSCs) was lost.
▪️More on news
✅ Rajya Sabha (RS) Chairman also called for 2- year fixed tenure for House panels.
✅ Thus, two options are being looked at: one, to extend the term of the panels for a year, and second, to form new committees with a fixed tenure of two years.
✅At present tenure of PSC is one year.
▪️About Parliamentary Committees
✅Parliamentary committees are of two kinds:
✅Standing Committees: Permanent in nature; Constituted every year; work on a continuous basis.
✅ Ad Hoc Committees: Temporary in nature; Cease to exist on completion of the task assigned to them.
🔸The constitution makes a mention of these committees at different places but without making any specific provisions regarding their composition, tenure etc. All these matters are dealt by the rules of two houses.
▪️Main objective of the PSCs is
✅ ensure detailed scrutiny and uphold government accountability work in non-partisan manner
✅ aids the Opposition to play a greater role in exercising control over the executive.
✅ engage with relevant stakeholders
✅ ensure financial prudence.
✅PSCs draw their authority from Article 105 (on privileges of Parliament members) and Article 118 (on Parliament’s authority to make rules for regulating its procedure and conduct of business).
✅Parliament is not bound by the recommendations of committees.
▪️Standing Committee: On the basis of the nature of functions performed by them, standing committees can be classified into the six categories:
🔸Financial Committees
🔸 Departmental Standing Committees- related to
Ministries/ Departments.
🔸 Committees to Inquire
🔸 Committees to Scrutinise and Control
🔸 Committees Relating to the Day-to-Day Business of the House
🔸House-Keeping Committees or Service Committees
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▪️Why in news?
✅Due to the pandemic, significant amount of the tenure of Parliamentary Standing Committees (PSCs) was lost.
▪️More on news
✅ Rajya Sabha (RS) Chairman also called for 2- year fixed tenure for House panels.
✅ Thus, two options are being looked at: one, to extend the term of the panels for a year, and second, to form new committees with a fixed tenure of two years.
✅At present tenure of PSC is one year.
▪️About Parliamentary Committees
✅Parliamentary committees are of two kinds:
✅Standing Committees: Permanent in nature; Constituted every year; work on a continuous basis.
✅ Ad Hoc Committees: Temporary in nature; Cease to exist on completion of the task assigned to them.
🔸The constitution makes a mention of these committees at different places but without making any specific provisions regarding their composition, tenure etc. All these matters are dealt by the rules of two houses.
▪️Main objective of the PSCs is
✅ ensure detailed scrutiny and uphold government accountability work in non-partisan manner
✅ aids the Opposition to play a greater role in exercising control over the executive.
✅ engage with relevant stakeholders
✅ ensure financial prudence.
✅PSCs draw their authority from Article 105 (on privileges of Parliament members) and Article 118 (on Parliament’s authority to make rules for regulating its procedure and conduct of business).
✅Parliament is not bound by the recommendations of committees.
▪️Standing Committee: On the basis of the nature of functions performed by them, standing committees can be classified into the six categories:
🔸Financial Committees
🔸 Departmental Standing Committees- related to
Ministries/ Departments.
🔸 Committees to Inquire
🔸 Committees to Scrutinise and Control
🔸 Committees Relating to the Day-to-Day Business of the House
🔸House-Keeping Committees or Service Committees
#prelims
#mains
JOIN @upsc_polity_Governance