To further hear the views of the Home Secretary on the subject Border Security: Capacity Building and Institutions

Instead of having oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Defence on Shortage of Ammunition for Army including Mountain Strike Corps now the Committee will have oral evidence of the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Law and Justice and the Election Commission of India on the Status of implementation of EPostal Ballot System in connection with the examination of the subject Proxy and Postal voting by Defence Services Personnel in General Elections An evaluation.

Further hear the Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2016

Briefing of the representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare) on the subject "Working towards making Indian Agriculture Flood and Drought Resilient".

To hear the Secretary, Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice on the subject ‘Inordinate Delay in Filling up the Vacancies in the Supreme Court and High Courts’.

To hear the Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy on the functioning of the Department.

Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on the subject - Energy Access in India-Review of Current Status and Role of Renewable Energy 

Oral Evidence of the Representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers) in Connection with Examination of Subject Implementation of Policy on Promotion of City Compost

To consider Memorandum No. 1 regarding Selection of Subjects for examination by the Committee during the year 2016-17.

Agenda for the meeting will be communicated shortly

Briefing by the representatives of Ministry of Finance on the subject " Budgetary Reforms including Merger of Railway Budget with General Budget - Ramifications thereof ".

To hear the views of the representatives of Ministry of Home Affairs on the subject Border Security: Capacity Building and Institutions.

Evidence of representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) on the Subject "Comprehensive Agriculture Research based on Geographical Conditions and Impact of Climatic Changes to ensure Food Security in the Country"

Presentation by (i) Secretary, Legislative Department on the structure and working of the Department (ii) Director-General, Election Commission of India on the subject and (iii) Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs on the subject and Presentation by Secretary, Department of Justice on the structure and working of the Department.

Agenda of the meeting will be intimated in due course

Presentation by Secretary, Department Personnel & Training(DoPT) on the structure and working of the Department Secretary, Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and Department of Pensions & Pensioner’s Welfare on the structure and working of the Department.

Agenda of the meeting will be intitmated shortly.

Agenda of the Meeting will be intimated in due course

(1) Consideration of Memorandum No. 1 regarding Selection of Subjects by the Committee for examination during the year 2016-17. (2) Briefing by the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation on the subject “Conservation Development, Management and Abatement of pollution in river Ganga and its tributaries” especially covering the following issues:- (i) Vision/Programmes made for rejuvenating the river Ganga since Independence; (ii) Projects so far undertaken for rejuvenating river Ganga; (iii) Progress / achievements of these projects; (iv) Expenditure incurred on these projects; (v) Any other related issues.

Briefing by the representatives of Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on the subject "Review of NSSO and CSO and streamlining of statistics collection machinery in the country including Management Information System for project monitoring / appraisal"