Public Accounts Committee (India)

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a committee of selected members of Parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the auditing of the revenue and the expenditure of the Government of India.

The PAC is formed every year with a strength of not more than 22 members of which 15 are from Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament, and 7 from Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament.[1] The term of office of the members is one year. The Chairman is appointed by the Speaker of Lok Sabha. Since 1967, the chairman of the committee is selected from the opposition. Earlier, it was headed by a member of the ruling party. Its chief function is to examine the audit report of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) after it is laid in the Parliament. CAG assists the committee during the course of investigation. None of the 22 members shall be a minister in the government.

The present PAC is headed by Prof. Kuruppassery Varkey Thomas, Senior Congress MP of Ernakulum Constituency, Kerala. The term of office of members of the Committee does not exceed one year at a time.[2]

Probes

2G spectrum scam

In 2011, the Public Accounts Committee probed the 2G spectrum scam which brought the committee to public attention.[3][4] The committee, on 4 April 2011, summoned Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, and Niira Radia, corporate lobbyist regarding the scam.[3][4] The PAC asked Congress members to apologise to Comptroller and Auditor General of India for making allegations against it.[5]

Chairpersons of the Public Accounts Committee

1. Mr. W.M. Hailey 1921
2. Sir Basil P. Blackett 1922-1927
3. Sir Bhupendra Nath Mitra 1928
4. Sir George Schuster 1929-31
5. Sir Alan Parsons 1932
6. Mr. A.H. Lloyd 1933
7. Sir James Grigg 1934-36
8. Mr. J.C. Nixon 1937
9. Sir James Grigg 1938
10. Sir Jeremy Raisman 1939-1941
11. Mr. C.E. Jones 1942
12. Sir Jeremy Raisman 1943
13. Sir Cyril Jones 1944
14. Sir Archibald Rowlands 1945
15. Sir Eric Coates 1946
16. Dr. John Matthai
17. Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan 1946-1947
18. Shri R.K. Shanmukham Chetty 1947-1948
18. Dr. John Matthai 1948-1949
19. Shri B. Das 1950-55
20. Shri V.B. Gandhi 1955-57
21. Shri T.N. Singh 1957-59
22. Prof. N.G. Ranga
23. Dr. P. Subbarayan 1959-60
24. Shri Upendranath Barman 1960-61
25. Shri C.R. Pattabhi Raman 1961-62
26. Shri Mahavir Tyagi 1962-64
27. Shri R.K. Khadilkar
28. Shri R.R. Morarka 1964-67
29. Shri M.R. Masani 1967-69
30. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1969-71
31. Shri Era Sezhiyan 1971-73
32. Shri Jyotirmoy Basu 1973-75
33. Shri H.N. Mukherjee 1975-77
34. Shri C.M. Stephen 1977-78
35. Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao 1978-79
36. Shri T.A. Pai 1979-80 (up to 30.7.79)
37. Shri R. Venkataraman 1979-80 (w.e.f. 2.8.79)
38. Shri Chandrajit Yadav 1980-81
39. Shri Satish Agarwal 1981-83
40. Shri Sunil Maitra 1983-84
41. Shri E. Ayyapu Reddy 1985-87
42. Shri Amal Datta 1987-89
43. Shri P. Kolandaivelu 1989 (up to 27.11.89)
44. Shri Sontosh Mohan Dev 1990-91
44. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1991-93
45. Shri Bhagwan Shankar Rawat 1993-95
46. Shri Ram Naik 1995-96
47. Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi 1996-98
48. Shri Manoranjan Bhakta 1998-99
49. Shri Narayan Datt Tiwari 1999-2002 (up to 1.3.2002)
50. Shri N. Janardhana Reddy 2001-2002 (w.e.f. 15.3.2002 to 30.4.2002)
51. Sardar Buta Singh 2002-2004
52. Prof. Kuruppassery Varkey Thomas 2013-2015

[6] [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Public Accounts Committee
  2. ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/KV-Thomas-takes-over-as-PAC-chairman/articleshow/40491640.cms. Retrieved 2014-08-21. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. 1 2 The Hindu
  4. 1 2 Indian Express
  5. ↑ http://business-standard.com/india/news/cong-members-should-apologise-to-cag-pac/456384/
  6. 1 2 http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/intro/11.pdf

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, February 04, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.