Sittings of the Standing Committee on Defence (2020-21) in connection with consideration and adoption of the Action Taken Reports and examination of Demands for Grants of MoD for the year 2021-22 will be held on 9, 17, 18 and 19 February, 2021.

(i) Consideration of memorandum no. 2 regarding inclusion of ‘Container Corporation of India (CONCOR)’ under comprehensive examination. (ii) Further evidence of the representatives of ‘National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited’ in connection with its comprehensive examination.

Consideration and Adoption of Draft Action Taken Reports on Demands for Grants (2019-20) and (2020-21) pertaining to Ministries under the purview of the Committee.

Consideration and Adoption of the draft Report on the Subject ‘Social Security and Welfare Measures for Inter-State Migrant Workers’.

To consider and adopt draft 155th, 156th, 157th and 158th Reports.    

To hear the views of representatives of Niti Aayog on the subject “Energy Security with specific reference to Hydrocarbon Resources and Electric Vehicles”.

Consideration and Adoption of Draft Report(s)

Consideration and Adoption of Draft Reports on the following subjects: a) Excesses over Voted Grants and Charged Appropriations (2017-18); b) Financial Loss Due to non-receipt of Completion-cum-occupancy Certificate, Loss due to Failure to Levy Departmental Charges and Undue Benefit to Contractor based on Paras 22.1, 22.2 and 22.3 of C&AG Report No. 12 of 2017 (Union Civil Compliance); c) Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Eighth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on ''Water Pollution in India”; d) Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on “Apparel Export Promotion Council”; e) Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their One Hundred and Thirty Fourth Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on ''Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana"; f) Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in First Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on the subject “Revision of Ceilings for Exception Reporting in Appropriation Accounts”; and g) Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in Fourth Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on the subject “Excesses over Voted Grants and Charged Appropriations (2016-17)”.

Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministries of External Affairs, Finance - Department of Economic Affairs, Law and Justice Department of Legal Affairs and Legislative Department and Commerce and Industry - Department of Commerce on provisions of Model BIT-2016 in connection with examination of the subject India and Bilateral Investment Treaties.

i. Consideration and Adoption of draft Report on the subject India s preparedness for 5G relating to Department of Telecommunications ii.To hear the views of the individuals, stakeholders, organizations in connection with the examination of the subject Review of functioning of Central Board of Film Certification relating to Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

To consider and adopt the draft Report of the Committee on and The DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2019.

To hear the Secretary, Ministry of Culture on 'Preservation, Protection and Funding of Museums and Archaeological Sites'.

Consideration and adoption of draft Report on Action Taken by the Government on the Observations Recommendations contained in the Second Report on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of External Affairs for the year 2020-21.

Evidence of non-official witnesses-experts on the subject - India and Bilateral Investment Treaties.

Oral evidence of the representatives of ICICI Bank and MSME Associations on the subjects:- (i) ‘Financing the MSME sector; its growth and regulation’ and, (ii) ‘Implementation of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code- Pitfalls and Solutions’.Oral evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises on the subject ‘Financing the MSME sector; its growth and regulation’ Oral evidence of the representatives of Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises on the subject ‘Financing the MSME sector; its growth and regulation’ 

Agenda of the meeting will be communicated in due course.

To hear the views of (i) Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India; and (ii) Dr. Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS, New Delhi on the "Vaccine Development, distribution management and Mitigation of Pandemic Covid-19".

Briefing by the representatives of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in connection with its comprehensive examination

to have briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of P&NG/PSUs on the subject "Review of Ongoing Projects of Oil PSUs with specific reference to EIL”.

On 21.01.2021-Evidence of representatives of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and to hear the views of the representatives of Facebook and Twitter on the subject Safeguarding citizens rights and prevention of misuse of social online news media platforms including special emphasis on women security in the digital space On 22.01.2021-Consideration and Adoption of draft Report on the subject India s preparedness for 5G