MPs from varied events have skipped the Parliamentary Standing Committee conferences after they have been reconstituted in September to deliberate on the Payments for introduction in Parliament throughout 2022-23, in keeping with the information on the Lok Sabha web site.
After the reorganisation of 13 Standing Committees of the Decrease Home, 22 conferences have been held from October to November 2022 for choosing the topics to be thought of through the yr 2022-23 through which solely 16 members have been current on a mean, the information confirmed.
The Standing Committee of Parliament consists of 31 members from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha through which 21 are from the Decrease Home and 10 from the Higher.
On a mean, greater than 40 per cent of members have been absent within the conferences of greater than a dozen Standing Committees of the Lok Sabha, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Meals and Client Affairs, Exterior Affairs, Commerce, Housing and City Affairs, Social Justice and Empowerment, it confirmed.
The BJP which has the most important variety of members on the committees additionally accounted for the very best absentees.
Notable members who have been absent from the conferences of those committees have been Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, P Chidambaram, Manish Tewari, Deepender Hooda (all Congress); Jaya Bachchan (SP); Hema Malini, Maneka Gandhi, Pragya Singh Thakur, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Pravesh Sahib Singh Verma, Kirit Premjibhai Solanki (all BJP); Ilaiya Raja (nominated); Harbhajan Singh and Sanjay Singh (each AAP); Simranjit Singh Mann (Akali Dal Amritsar) and so on.
Akali Dal’s Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Trinamool Congress’s Abhishek Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee, independents Kapil Sibal and Navneet Rana, RJD’s Misa Bharti have been additionally absent from the committee conferences.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been elevating this concern to make sure the presence of BJP MPs within the Parliamentary committees.
In accordance with statistics, solely 12 members have been current within the assembly held on October 10, of the 31-member Standing Committee hooked up to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Meals Processing.
Whereas solely 17 out of 31 members attended the assembly of the Standing Committee hooked up to the Ministry of Finance on October 28, twenty-one members attended the assembly of the identical committee held on November 4.
Within the assembly of the Standing Committee hooked up to the Ministry of Exterior Affairs on October 19, solely 14 members have been current and solely 15 members have been current within the assembly held on the subject ‘Combating World Terrorism’ on November 10.
The assembly hooked up to the Ministry of Meals and Client Affairs on October 18 was attended solely by 15 members.
In accordance with statistics, solely 14 members attended the assembly of the committee hooked up to the Ministry of Commerce on October 17 and solely 15 members have been current within the assembly of the identical committee held on October 28.
Eleven members attended the assembly of the standing committee on Social Justice and Empowerment on October 17.
Twenty-four members have been current within the assembly on Railways held on October 20.