Department Related Standing Committee | |
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17th Lok Sabha | |
Country | India |
Leadership | |
Chaiperson | P. P. Chaudhary |
Chairperson party | BJP |
Appointer | Lok sabha Speaker |
Structure | |
Seats | 31 Lok Sabha : 21 Rajya Sabha : 10 |
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The Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs is a department related standing committee (DRSC) of selected members of parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the purpose of legislative oversight of the foreign policy, and decision making of the Ministry of External Affairs. It is one of the 24 DRSCs that have been mandated with the task of ministry specific oversight.
As of 2022, The committee currently is headed by MP P. P. Chaudhary. [1]
Each of the committees have 31 members – 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha. [1] These members are to be nominated by the Speaker of Lok Sabha or the Chairman of Rajya Sabha respectively. The term of office of these committees does not exceed one year. These committees are serviced either by Lok Sabha secretariat or the Rajya Sabha secretariat, depending on who has appointed the chairman of that committee.
Following are the members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs. [2]
Sr. No. | Portrait | Name | Constituency, state | Party | |
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1 | P. P. Chaudhary [lower-alpha 1] | Pali, Rajasthan | BJP | ||
2 | Harsimrat Kaur Badal | Bhatinda, Punjab | SAD | ||
3 | Abhishek Banerjee | Diamond Harbour, West Bengal | TMC | ||
4 | Kalyan Banerjee | Shreerampur, West Bengal | |||
5 | Harsh Vardhan | BJP | |||
6 | Dileshwar Kamait | JD(U) | |||
7 | Suresh Kumar Kashyap | BJP | |||
8 | Preneet Kaur | INC | |||
9 | Goddeti Madhavi | ||||
10 | Manne Srinivas Reddy | Mahabubnagar, Telangana | TRS | ||
11 | P. C. Mohan | BJP | |||
12 | Queen Oja | ||||
13 | Ritesh Pandey | ||||
14 | K. C. Patel | BJP | |||
15 | N.K. Premachandran | ||||
16 | Navneet Ravi Rana | ||||
17 | Soyam Babu Rao | BJP | |||
18 | Rebati Tripura | ||||
19 | Poonam (Mahajan) Vajendla Rao | ||||
20 | Vacant | ||||
21 | Vacant |
Sr. No. | Name | State Legislature | Party | Party status | |
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1 | K. J. Alphons | Rajasthan | BJP | Government | |
2 | Jaya Bachchan | Uttar Pradesh | SP | Opposition | |
3 | Misha Bharti | Bihar | RJD | Opposition | |
4 | Brijlal | Uttar Pradesh | BJP | Government | |
5 | P. Chidambaram | Maharashtra | INC | Opposition | |
6 | Swapan Dasgupta | West Bengal | BJP | Government | |
7 | Prakash Javadekar [1] | Maharashtra | BJP | Government | |
8 | Sanjay Raut [1] | Maharashtra | SS | Opposition | |
9 | Kapil Sibal | Uttar Pradesh | INC | Opposition | |
10 | K. Somaprasad | Kerala | CPIM | Opposition |
Sr. No. | Name | Term of office | Terms | Political party (Alliance) | |
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1 | Buta Singh | 1993-95 | 2 | INC | |
2 | No Public records found | 1995-98 | 3 | ||
3 | Kamal Chaudhary | 1998-99 | 1 | INC | |
4 | Laxminarayan Pandey | 1999-2002 | 3 | BJP | |
5 | Madan Lal Khurana | 2002-04 | 2 | ||
6 | Balasaheb Vikhe Patil | 2004-08 | 4 | INC | |
7 | Satpal Maharaj | 2008-11 | 4 | ||
8 | Raj Babbar | 2012-14 | 2 | ||
9 | Maj Gen. BC Khanduri (Retd.) | 2014-17 | 3 | BJP | |
10 | Kalraj Mishra | 2017-19 | 2 --> | ||
11 | P. P. Chaudhary [1] | 2021–Present | 1 |
As part of its oversight process, the committee has published quite a number of reports over the course of its existence. The committee has published a total of 87 reports from 1993 to 2010. Out of these, 18 are reports on Demands for Grants (DFGs), 25 reports on subjects taken up by the committee, 5 reports on bills referred to the committee and 36 are reports on action taken by the government on corresponding reports of the committee.
In March 2023, the committee in its Demand for Grants (2023–24) report, criticized the ministry for being "most short-staffed" and under-budgeted. The committee highlighted that The total strength of 4,888 is distributed across different cadres of the Ministry such as the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), IFS General Cadre, IFS Group B, Stenographers Cadre, Interpreters Cadre, Legal and Treaties Cadre, among others. The cadre strength of Indian Foreign Service Officers is only 1,011, just 22.5 percent of the total strength. Out of IFS 'A' cadre, 667 are posted at the Missions abroad and 334 are manning the headquarters in Delhi, which currently has 57 divisions. [3] The committee also highlighted that the ministry “remains one amongst the least funded central ministries” as its actual annual spending has been around 0.4% of the total budgetary allocation of the government since 2020-21. [4]
Lok Sabha | Tenure | Demands for Grants(DFGs) | Subjects | Bills | ATRs | Total Reports Presented |
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10th Lok Sabha | 1991–96 | 3 | 2 | – | 3 | 8 |
11th Lok Sabha | 1996–97 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 6 |
12th Lok Sabha | 1998–99 | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | 8 |
13th Lok Sabha | 1999–04 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 21 |
14th Lok Sabha | 2004–09 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 15 | 36 |
15th Lok Sabha | 2009–14 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 5 |
16th Lok Sabha | 2014–2019 | |||||
17th Lok Sabha | 2019-2024 |
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