LS Speaker Constitutes New Parliamentary Committees from :BJP’s Ganesh Singh, Sanjay Jaiswal, Dr Faggan Singh Kulaste, , Baijyant Panda and Cong’s K. Venugopal becomes Chairperson

New Delhi : The Lok Sabha speaker on Saturday named the constituents of the six new Parliamentary Committees including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which examines government expenditure.

Ganesh Singh, BJP MP from Satna, Madhya Pradesh has been appointed as the chairperson of the Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes. The Committee was first established in 2012 and its functions include, considering reports from the National Commission for Backward Classes and reviewing welfare measures for OBCs.

Besides the PAC, the chairperson for the Committee on Public Undertakings, Committee on Estimates, Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes, Committee on Public Accounts and Committee on Estimates were also named.

BJP Lok Sabha MP from Mandla constituency Dr Faggan Singh Kulaste has been appointed as the chairperson of the committee on the Welfare of scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

Similarly, a BJP Lok Sabha MP from Odisha’s Kendrapara, Baijyant Panda has been appointed as the chairperson of the committee on Public undertakings. The Committee on Public Undertakings is a financial standing committee of the Parliament. It examines the reports and accounts of public sector undertakings (PSUs). Its function is to review the performance of PSUs and assess the impact of PSUs on the economy and the lives of ordinary citizens.

Whereas, Senior Congress MP KC Venugopal has been appointed chairperson of the committee on Public accounts. The PAC examines the appropriation accounts for the government’s railways, defence services, P&T department, and other civil ministries. They also review the CAG reports on these accounts

BJP MP Dr Sanjay Jaiswal has been appointed as the Chair of the committee on Estimates. The committee examines the budget estimates for each administrative department. It also suggests ways to improve efficiency and administrative reform.

The following are the members of the Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes :

From LOK SABHA- 1. Shri Gurjeet Singh Aujla, 2. Shri Manickam Tagore B., 3. Shri T. R. Baalu, 4. Shri Vijay Baghel, 5. Shri Kalyan Banerjee, 6. Shri Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, 7. Shri G. Lakshminarayana, 8. Shri Bidyut Baran Mahato, 9. Shri Jyotirmay Singh Mahato, 10. Shri Rodmal Nagar, 11. Shri Kota Srinivasa Poojary, 12. Shri Ramashankar Rajbhar, 13. Shri Lumba Ram, 14. Dr. Gumma Thanuja Rani,15. Dr. Swami Sachidanand Hari Sakshi, 16. Shri Ganesh Singh, 17. Shri K. Sudhakaran, 18. Smt. Dhanorkar Pratibha Suresh, 19. Shri Ashok Kumar Yadav, 20. Shri Giridhari Yadav.

From RAJYA SABHA – 21. Dr. Anil Sukhdeorao Bonde, 22. Shri Subhasish Khuntia, 23. Shri Baburam Nishad, 24. Shri Shambhu Sharan Patel, 25. Ms. Kavita Patidar, 26. Shri S. Selvaganabathy, 27. Shri C. Ve. Shanmugam, 28. Shri Ashok Singh, 29. Dr. V. Sivadasan, 30. Shri Beedha Masthan Rao Yadav.

The following are the members of the Committee on Estimates :

From LOK SABHA – 1. Shri Brijmohan Agrawal, 2. Shri M. Mallesh Babu, 3. Shri Kalyan Banerjee, 4. Shri Pradan Baruah, 5. Shri Charanjit Singh Channi, 6. Shri P. P. Chaudhary, 7. Shri Devusinh Chauhan, 8. Ms. Iqra Choudhary, 9. Smt. Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, 10. Shri Sudheer Gupta, 11. Shri Deepender Singh Hooda, 12. Shri Manish Jaiswal, 13. Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal, 14. Shri Naveen Jindal, 15. Shri Jugal Kishore, 16. Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, 17. Shri P. C. Mohan, 18. Shri B. K. Parthasarathi, 19. Shri Awadhesh Prasad, 20. Shri M. K. Raghavan, 21. Shri Bishnu Pada Ray, 22. Shri Y. S. Avinash Reddy, 23. Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy, 24. Dr. Rajkumar Sangwan, 25. Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant, 26. Kumari Selja, 27. Dr. Bhola Singh, 28. Dr. Indra Hang Subba, 29. Shri Manoj Tiwari 30. Shri Ve Vaithilingam.

The following are the members of the Committee on Public Accounts :

From LOK SABHA – 1. Shri T. R. Baalu, 2. Dr. Nishikant Dubey, 3. Shri Jagdambika Pal, 4. Shri Jai Parkash, 5. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, 6. Shri C. M. Ramesh, 7. Shri Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, 8. Prof. Sougata Roy, 9. Smt. Aparajita Sarangi, 10. Dr. Amar Singh, 11. Shri Tejasvi Surya, 12. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, 13. Shri Balashowry Vallabhaneni, 14. Shri K. C. Venugopal, 15. Shri Dharmendra Yadav.

From RAJYA SABHA – 16. Shri Ashokrao Shankarrao Chavan, 17. Shri Shaktisinh Gohil, 18. Dr. K. Laxman, 19. Shri Praful Patel, 20. Shri Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, 21. Shri Tiruchi Siva, 22. Shri Sudhanshu Trivedi.

The following are the members of the Committee on Public Undertakings :

From LOK SABHA – 1. Shri Tariq Anwar, 2. Shri Sudip Bandyopadhyay 3. Shri R. K. Chaudhary, 4. Shri Chandra Prakash Joshi, 5. Smt. Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, 6. Shri Kaushalendra Kumar, 7. Shri Shankar Lalwani, 8. Smt. Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam, 9. Shri Baijayant Panda, 10. Shri B. Y. Raghavendra, 11. Shri Mukesh Rajput, 12. Shri Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, 13. Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi, 14. Shri Kodikunnil Suresh,15. Shri Prabhakar Reddy Vemireddy.

From RAJYA SABHA – 16. Shri Neeraj Dangi, 17. Shri Milind Murli Deora, 18. Shri Narain Dass Gupta, 19. Dr. Bhagwat Karad, 20. Shri Surendra Singh Nagar, 21. Shri Debashish Samantaray, 22. Shri Arun Singh.

The following are the members of the Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes :

From LOK SABHA – 1. Shri Alfred Kanngam S. Arthur, 2. Shri Arun Bharti, 3. Shri Anil Firojiya, 4. Shri Tapir Gao, 5. Shri Govind Maskthappa Karjol, 6. Dr. Faggan Singh Kulaste, 7. Shri Harish Chandra Meena, 8. Smt. Pratima Mondal, 9. Shri Ananta Nayak, 10. Shri A. Raja, 11. Shri Vishnu Dayal Ram, 12. Shri Daggumalla Prasada Rao, 13. Dr. Mallu Ravi, 14. Shri Arun Kumar Sagar, 15. Shri Jagannath Sarkar, 16. Shri Pushpendra Saroj, 17. Shri Sasikanth Senthil, 18. Adv. Chandra Shekhar, 19. Dr. Alok Kumar Suman, 20. Shri Parbhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava.

From RAJYA SABHA – 21. Smt. Sumitra Balmik, 22. Smt. S. Phangnon Konyak, 23. Shri Mithlesh Kumar, 24. Shri Rwngwra Narzary, 25. Smt. Phulo Devi Netam, 26. Shri Krishan Lal Panwar, 27. Shri Devendra Pratap Singh, 28. Dr. V. Sivadasan, 29. Dr. Kanimozhi NVN Somu, 30. Smt. Mamata Thakur.