New Delhi : The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs will hold a meeting on November 2 to hear the views of the Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Kerala governments on crime against children. The meeting had been rescheduled from its original date of October 27.
According to an official statement, the meeting will begin at 11 am in the Parliament House complex and will include the committee’s selection of subjects for examination during its 2026-27 term.
The revised schedule sets out times for each state’s presentation: Uttar Pradesh at 11:30 am, Rajasthan at 12:30 pm, Tamil Nadu at 2:30 pm, and Kerala at 3:30 pm on October 27. The meeting was initially planned for October 22 but was first shifted to October 27 before the final rescheduling to November 2.
The agenda papers will be circulated in due course, and committee members have been asked to attend the meeting. The sessions are part of the committee’s ongoing examination of issues related to Home Affairs, with state governments expected to provide their perspectives on crimes against children.
On September 23, the committee held separate sessions at the Parliament House complex discussing crime against children and the implementation of centrally sponsored schemes in northeastern states.
The 31-member committee is chaired by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Radha Mohan Das Agarwal and includes 21 members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha. Notable members from the Rajya Sabha include Indian Union Muslim League MP Haris Beeran, BJP MPs Samik Bhattacharya, Neeraj Shekhar and Tarun Chugh, Congress MP Ajay Maken, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh, and RJD MP Sanjay Yadav.
Lok Sabha members include MPs Kakoli Ghosh (Barasat, West Bengal), Anil Yeshwant Desai (Shiv Sena UBT), BJP MPs Ashish Dubey, Satish Kumar Gautam, Naveen Jindal, Saumitra Khan, Jyotirmay Singh Mahato, BY Raghavendra, Delkar Kalaben Mohanbhai, Congress MPs Jai Parkash, Muhammed Hamdullah Sayeed, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, TDP MPs Kesineni Sivanath and Krishna Prasad Tenneti, NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule, and DMK MP Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, among others.
Of the 24 Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees of both Houses, eight—including the Committee on Home Affairs—operate under the direction and control of the Rajya Sabha Chairman, while the remaining 16 are under the Lok Sabha Speaker’s control.
