COMMITTEE SYSTEM
Introduction
- US: congress in session is congress at display, congress in committee is congress at work
- work throughout the year
- can take specialist view on a particular issue
- parties can coordinate behind media
- committees can involve stakeholders, experts for consultation
- strongest committee system in USA
- bill can directly go even before introduction to house
- in India, committee system does not work efficiently
- not necessary to refer the bill to committee
- 16th LS, only 27% are referred, 15th 70% were referred
- recommendations are even not tabled
- when discussed, not implemented
- started in India in 1921: Public Accounts Committee
- Estimates Committee was set up in 1950
- 1993: Departmental led Standing Committees have been set up
- 4 type of committee wrt legislative business
- financial
- departmental standing committee
- select committee
- ad hoc
- rules committee
- weakness of committee system, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Devesh kapoor
- suffer general weakness of parliament
- lack of capacity
- members elected for a year, so waste of experience
- not given additional remuneration
- lack of qualitative research support
- recommendations neither discussed, nor implemented
- ministers are not involved, so neither supportive
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