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Parliament

Mechanism of voting and recording of votes in Parliament

Esha - December 24, 2010
The convention for passing Bills in the Parliament is by orally communicating agreement or disagreement with the proposed motion (whether a Bill should be passed or not, for example). When a motion is put to vote the speaker says, 'Those in the favour of the motion say Aye and those opposin...
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Can Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) summon ministers?

Esha - December 21, 2010
One of our earlier posts (read here) tackled the question of whether the Public Accounts Committee could summon ministers or not. According to a direction of the speaker, a Minister cannot be summoned by a financial committee. There are no specific procedures for the Joint Parliamentary Committees m...
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How many reports has PAC tabled since 1952?

Esha - December 20, 2010
Around 1400 reports have been tabled by the PAC since the first Lok Sabha till end of 14th Lok Sabha. In terms of absolute numbers, the largest number of reports were tabled during the 5th Lok Sabha (1971-77).  However, in terms of the average number of reports presented in the duration...
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Can Ministers be summoned by Public Accounts Committee?

Esha - December 16, 2010
The Public Accounts Committee  examines how the Government spends public money. It examines the amount granted by the Parliament and the amount actually spent. A Speaker in the past, has passed a direction which specifies clearly that a Minister cannot be summoned by the Financial Committees. &...
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How many times has the PAC met since 2002?

Esha - December 15, 2010
Between 2002-06 the average number of sitting per year (May - April) was around 19 but since 2006 the average has dipped to around 11 sittings per year. The average number of committee sittings is around 15 per year from 2002-10. The committee met 22 times in 2002-03 while it only met 5 times in 200...
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