Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta on Tuesday announced the formation of three crucial financial committees including Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which will examine the CAG reports presented recently in the House, Committee on Government Undertakings, and Committee on Estimates.
The three nine-member committees have six ruling BJP MLAs and three from the opposition Aam Aadmi Party. It is expected that the chairman of these committee will be from the ruling BJP.
This comes on the same day when the 8th out of 14 reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, which were pending to be tabled in the House under the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, tabled in
the House.
These financial committees play a vital role in scrutinising the financial operations of the Delhi government, ensuring transparency and accountability in public spending.
The PAC members will be BJP MLAs Ajay Mahawar, Arvinder Singh Lovely, Kailash Gahlot, Raj Kumar Chauhan, Satish Upadhyay and Shikha Rai.
AAP MLAs including Leader of Opposition Atishi, Kuldeep Kumar and Virendra Singh Kadiyan will also be members of the panel.
This is the first time that PAC will examine over 12 reports at a time. Both BJP and AAP have nominated their stalwart for these committees.
The committee’s meeting is expected to be stormy in the coming as BJP’s members in the PAC including Arvind Singh Lovely, Raj Kumar Chauhan, Satish Upadhyay have legislative experience. Similarly, AAP is solely banking on Atishi and Kuldeep Kumar to present their viewpoints.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports on DTC, health, air pollution, excise tabled in the House during the ongoing budget session, will be examined by the PAC for probe and commendations.
The Committee on Government Undertakings has BJP MLAs Deepak Chaudhary, Gajendra Dral, Anil Goyal, Kuldeep Solanki, Raj Karan Khatri and Tilak Ram Khatri as its members, while Sanjiv Jha, Prem Chauhan and Ajay Dutt will be members of the panel from AAP.
This committee will look into the CAG reports on finance and appropriation accounts of the previous AAP government in Delhi, revealing non-submission of bills and utilisation certificates worth hundreds of crores of rupees.
The four reports pertain to Finance Accounts and Appropriation Accounts of the Delhi government for the financial years 2021-22 and 2022-23.
The Estimates Committee members are Gajendra Singh Yadav, Harish Khurana, , Kulwant Rana, Poonam Sharma, Sanjay Goyal and Sandeep Sehrawat (all from the BJP) and Imran Hussain, Som Dutt and Vishesh Ravi from AAP.
