Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday reconstituted 24 Departments related to Parliamentary Standing Committees. Eight of them are serviced by the upper House, beginning this month.
While the Committee of Home Affairs will be chaired by former Home Minister P Chidambaram, his Cabinet colleague in UPA Anand Sharma will head the Science and Technology Department. TMC member Derek O’ Brien has been appointed Chairman on Committee of Transport, Tourism and Culture.
A Rajya Sabha Press communiqué said the tenure of the reconstituted Committees is one year and each Committee has 10 members from Rajya Sabha and 21 from Lok Sabha. The Committee on Commerce will be chaired by Naresh Gujral with Rajya Sabha members Vayalar Ravi, Kapil Sibal, Roopa Ganguly, MP Virendra Kumar, Rakesh Sinha and Lok Sabha MPs Abhishek Banerjee, Jitendra Chaudhury, Bijoya Chakravarty, Kavitha Kalvakauntia, Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati as its members.
The Committee on Health and Family Welfare will be chaired Prof Ram Gopal Yadav with Jai Ram Ramesh, Dr CP Thakur and others from Rajya Sabha as members and likewise few MPs from Lok Sabha including Arjun Lal Meena, Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Chirag Paswan and Dr. Shrikant Eknath Shinde.
The Committee on Home Affairs will be chaired by P Chidambaram and members from Rajya Sabha — Pratap Keshari Dev, Dr V Maitreyan, Manas Ranjan Bhunia, Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, R.K. Sinha and Members from Lok Sabha Prem Singh Chandumajra, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Mallikarjun Kharge, Kirron Anupam Kher, Ashwani Kumar, Faizal PP Mohammad, Jagdambika Pal, Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati, Dr Prasanna Kumar Patasini as members of the panel.
The Committee on Human Resource Development will be chaired by veteran leader Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya while Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forest will be headed by Anand Sharma. The other members of Sharma’s panel are Sharad Pawar, Prasanna Acharya, Anil Baluni, Raj Kumar Dhoot, Sushmita Dev, Ninong Ering, Dr. K. Gopal and others.
The Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice is to be chaired by Bhupender Yadav with prominent MPs of both houses — Swapan Das Gupta, Prabhat Jha, Majeed Memon, D. Raja, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Dr. Subramaniam Swamy, Tariq Anwar, Meenakhsi Lekhi and Kalyan Banerjee as the panel’s members.
The Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culturewill be chaired by Derek O’ Brien with Praful Patel, Dr Sonal Mansingh, Rewati Raman Singh, Subrata Bakshi, Rajeshbhai Naranbhai Chudasama, Arpita Ghosh, Major General BC Khanduri and Shatrughan Prasad Sinha as its members comprising from both the house of Parliament.
