New Delhi: Senior Congress chief Okay C Venugopal will head the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which retains an in depth eye on authorities expenditure, based on the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla additionally constituted 4 different parliamentary panels, together with Estimates and Public Undertakings committees which shall be chaired by BJP leaders.

Public Accounts, Public Undertakings and Estimates committees are the important thing monetary committees of Parliament tasked with protecting a watch on the federal government’s accounts and the functioning of public sector corporations.

The Lok Sabha Secretariat issued a bulletin on Friday asserting the structure of parliamentary committees.

The Committee on Welfare of OBCs shall be headed by Ganesh Singh of the BJP. His celebration colleague Faggan Singh Kulaste will head the Committee on Welfare of SCs and STs.

BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal will head the Committee on Estimates whereas his celebration colleague Baijayant Panda will chair the Committee on Public Undertakings.

The committees have a tenure of 1 yr and have members from each Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. They are elected by the 2 Houses.
The PAC is often headed by a senior Lok Sabha member of the principal opposition celebration. Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury headed the PAC for 5 years.

Unlike the earlier Lok Sabha, committees within the 18th Lok Sabha have taken form largely by way of consensus as a substitute of elections.

Besides the PAC, Committee on Public Undertakings, Committee on Estimates, Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Joint Committee on Office of Profit and Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes have been constituted with out an election this time.

The Lok Sabha speaker is but to represent the department-related standing committees which keep watch over the functioning of assorted Union ministries and departments.