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Standing Committees
Why is it in news?
- The Rajya Sabha Secretariat is mulling over changing the rules governing the standing committees’ tenure to make it two years from the present one.
Details:
- It has been proposed to allow the panels to have enough time to work on the subjects selected by them.
- The tenure of all standing committees end on September 11, and they can’t hold deliberations till new panels are formed.
- Many chairpersons of the current panels have felt that a significant amount of the tenure of their committees was lost due to the pandemic.
- Many panels have not been able to complete reports on the subjects they were working on.
- Parliamentary Committees: Parliamentary Committees are of two kinds: Standing Committees and Ad hoc Committees.
- Standing Committee:
(1) Standing Committees are permanent and regular committees which are constituted from time to time in pursuance of the provisions of an Act of Parliament or Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha.
(2) The work of these Committees is of continuous nature. The Financial Committees, DRSCs and some other Committees come under the category of Standing Committees.
- Ad hoc Committee:
(1) Ad hoc Committees are appointed for a specific purpose and they cease to exist when they finish the task assigned to them and submit a report. The principal Ad hoc Committees are the Select and Joint Committees on Bills.
(2) Railway Convention Committee, Joint Committee on Food Management in Parliament House Complex etc also come under the category of ad hoc Committees.