Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has announced the names of chairmen of important committees of the House in Parliament, where senior Congress MP KC Venugopal has been appointed as the chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The Public Accounts Committee is considered the most important committee in the parliamentary system.
For a long time now, the Congress has been complaining about not being given importance in the parliamentary committees, but this time a lot has changed due to the results of the Lok Sabha elections. This change is also visible in the parliamentary committees. Congress has chaired the Public Accounts Committee PAC.
On Friday, the Lok Sabha Secretariat issued a bulletin announcing the formation of parliamentary committees. All three committees have a term of one year, comprising members of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, and are elected by both houses.
According to the Bulletin Part-2 issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha has appointed KC Venugopal as the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee for the year 2024-25. This committee consists of 22 MPs, including 15 from the Lok Sabha and 7 from the Rajya Sabha.
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Apart from KC Venugopal, this committee includes Nishikant Dubey, TR Balu, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Jagdambika Pal, CM Ramesh, Jay Prakash, Aparajita Sarangi, Prof. Saugata Rai, Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, Anurag Singh Thakur, Tejaswi Surya, Balashauri Vallabhaneni, from Lok Sabha. Dr. Amar Singh and Dharmendra Yadav are included.
At the same time, this committee from Rajya Sabha includes Ashok Chavan, Praful Patel, Shaktisinh Gohil, Dr. K. Laxman, Tiruchi K Shiva, Sukhendu Shekhar Roy and Sudhanshu Trivedi. Let us know that the Public Accounts Committee is considered to be the most important and influential committee in the parliamentary system.
The term of this committee will expire on April 30, 2025. Along with this, the chairman of many other important committees related to the House has also been appointed by the Lok Sabha Speaker. Sanjay Jaiswal, Chairman of the Estimates Committee, Ganesh Singh, Chairman of the Other Backward Classes Welfare Committee, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Chairman of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare Committee and Baijayant Panda, Chairman of the Government Undertakings Committee have been appointed.
