Key Parliamentary Panels Formed Without Election

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is expected to nominate chairpersons of the panels soon, parliamentary officials said.

Key parliamentary panels, including the Public Accounts Committee, have started taking shape, mostly by consensus as opposed to elections that took place in the previous Lok Sabha. Besides the PAC, which examines government expenditure, the Committee on Public Undertakings, the Committee on Estimates, the Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the Joint Committee on Office of Profit and the Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes have been formed without election.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is expected to nominate chairpersons of the panels soon, parliamentary officials said.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju and his team of floor managers have worked to ensure that appointments to the committees take place by consensus.