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Which one of the following is the largest Committee of the Parliament?

 a) The committee on Public Accounts 

 b) The committee on Estimates 

 c) The committee on Public Undertakings 

 d) The committee on Petitions 


Solution: 

  • The committee on Estimates is the largest committee of the Parliament. 
  • It has total 30 members. 
  • The origin of this committee can be traced to the standing financial committee set up in 1921. 
  • The first Estimates Committee in the post independence era was constituted in 1950 on the recommendation of John Mathai, the then finance minister. 
  • Originally, it had 25 members but in 1956 its membership was raised to 30. 
  • All the thirty members are from Lok Sabha only. 
  • The Rajya Sabha has no representation in this committee. 
  • These members are elected by the Lok Sabha every year from amongst its own members, according to the principles of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote. 
  • The function of the committee is to examine the estimates included in the budget and suggest ‘economies’ in public expenditure. 
  • Hence, it has been described as a ‘continuous economy committee’.


Ans: (b)

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