Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentarian Girish Bhalchandra Bapat on Monday was appointed as the Chairperson of Estimates Committee of Lok Sabha for 2019-2010. The tenure of the newly elected Committee on Estimates will end on April 30, 2020. Apart from the Chairperson, the standing committee on Estimates has 29 other members of the House. 
The Parliament has three financial standing committees including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Estimates Committee (EC) and Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU).
While earlier on July 26, 29 MPs were elected opposed to the committee from the Lok Sabha. The all 30 members of the committee include:
  1. Ali Kunwar Danish
  2. Kalyan Banerjee
  3. Girish Bhalchandra Bapat
  4. Sudarshan Bhagat
  5. Pradan Barua
  6. Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan
  7. PP Choudhury
  8. PC Gaddigoudar
  9. Dilip Ghosh
  10. Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal
  11. Dharmendra Kashyap
  12. Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya
  13. Dayanidhi Maran
  14. K Murlidharan
  15. SS Palanimanickam
  16. Kamlesh Paswan
  17. KC Patel
  18. Colonel Rajyavardhan Rathore
  19. Vinayak Bhaurao Raut
  20. Ashok Kumar Rawat
  21. Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy
  22. Rajeeb Pratap Rudy
  23. Cosme Francisco Caitano Sardinha
  24. Jugal Kishore Sharma
  25. Pratap Sinha
  26. Dharamveer Singh
  27. Sangeeta Kumari Singh Dev
  28. Kesineni Srinivas
  29. Sunil Dattatray Tatkare
  30. Pravesh Sahib Singh Verma
READ: Twenty-Nine MPs elected ‘unopposed’ to Parliamentary Standing Committee on Estimates

While last week, Congress leader in Lok Sabha and West Bengal MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was appointed as the chairmanship of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament.

As per the tradition, the post of PAC of the parliament goes to the main opposition party. The Indian National Congress, with 52 MPs, is the second-largest party in the Lok Sabha. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has 15 members from Lok Sabha while seven are from the Rajya Sabha.

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