VP appoints own staff on House committees
- March 8, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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VP appoints own staff on House committees
Subject : Polity
Section: Parliament
Concept :
- Eight members of the personal staff of VicePresident and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar have been appointed to 20 committees that come within the ambit of the Upper House.
- There is no past precedent of personal staff working on the committees.
- Four of these staffers are employed with the Chairman’s office and four of them with the VicePresident’s Secretariat.
- Each Standing Committee has an official of the rank of Additional Secretary or Joint Secretary assisting in its functioning who also attends the meetings, which are strictly confidential.
Parliamentary Committee
- India’s Parliament has multiple types of committees. They can be differentiated on the basis of their work, their membership and the length of their tenure.
- However, broadly there are two types of Parliamentary Committees– Standing Committees and Ad Hoc Committees.
- The Standing Committees are permanent (constituted every year or periodically) and work on a continuous basis.
- Standing Committees can be classified into the following six categories:
- Financial Committees
- Departmental Standing Committees
- Committees to Enquire
- Committees to Scrutinise and Control
- Committees Relating to the Day-to-Day Business of the House
- House-Keeping Committees or Service Committees
- While the Ad Hoc Committees are temporary and cease to exist on completion of the task assigned to them.
- They are further subdivided into Inquiry Committees and Advisory Committees.
- The principal Ad hoc Committees are the Select and Joint Committees on Bills.