Standing Committee on Home Affairs

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Standing Committee on Home Affairs
Department Related Standing Committee
18th Lok Sabha
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
Leadership
Chaiperson Radha Mohan Das Agarwal
Chairperson party Bharatiya Janata Party
Appointer Lok sabha Speaker
Structure
Seats31
Lok Sabha  : 21
Rajya Sabha  : 10

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs (SCOHA) 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 domestic policy, internal security and decision making of the Ministry of Home Affairs. It is one of the 24 DRSCs that have been mandated with the onerous task of ministry specific oversight.

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The committee currently is headed by MP Radha Mohan Das Agarwal. [1] [2]

Current composition

Each of the committees have 31 members – 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha. [2] 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 Keys:   BJP (11)   INC (5)   AIADMK (2)   AITC (3)   TDP (2)   BJD (2)   SS (2)   TRS (1)   JDS (1)   SAD (1)   JDU (1) = 31 members

Party-wise membership of Standing Committee on Defence

   BJP (40%)
   INC (13.33%)
   AITC (10%)
   AIADMK (6.67%)
   TDPTRS (6.67%)
   BJD (6.67%)
   SS (6.67%)
   TRS (3.33%)
   JDS (3.33%)
   SAD (3.33%)
   JDU (3.33%)
21 Members from 18th Lok Sabha; tenure – September 2024-25
Sr. No.PortraitNameConstituency, stateParty
1 Ashish Dubey Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh BJP
2 Satish Kumar Gautam Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
3 Naveen Jindal Kurukshetra, Haryana
4 Jyotirmay Singh Mahato Purulia, West Bengal
5 Kalaben Delkar Dadra and Nagar Haveli
6 B. Y. Raghavendra Shimoga, Karnataka
7 Vishnu Dayal Ram Palamu, Jharkhand
8 Jai Parkash Hisar, Haryana INC
9 Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa Gurdaspur, Punjab
10 Muhammed Hamdulla Sayeed Lakshadweep
11 Amrinder Singh Raja Warring Ludhiana, Punjab
12 Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar Barasat, West Bengal AITC
13 Mala Roy Kolkata Dakshin, West Bengal
14 Kesineni Chinni Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh TDP
15 Krishna Prasad Tenneti Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh
16 Dayanidhi Maran Chennai Central, Tamil Nadu DMK
17 Anil Desai Mumbai South Central, Maharashtra SS(UBT)
18 Dhairyasheel Sambhajirao Mane Hatkanangle, Maharashtra SS
19 Supriya Sule Baramati, Maharashtra NCP(SP)
20 Chandrashekhar Azad Nagina, Uttar Pradesh ASP(kR)
21Vacant
Notes
    10 Members from the Rajya Sabha
    Sr. No.NameState LegislatureParty
    1 Radha Mohan Das Agarwal [lower-alpha 1] Uttar Pradesh BJP
    2 Nabam Rebia Arunachal Pradesh
    3 Neeraj Shekhar Uttar Pradesh
    4 Samik Bhattacharya West Bengal
    5 Ajay Maken Karnataka INC
    6 Derek O'Brien West Bengal AITC
    7 Sanjay Yadav Bihar RJD
    8 Haris Beeran Kerala IUML
    9 G. K. Vasan Tamil Nadu TMC
    10 Kapil Sibal Uttar Pradesh IND

    Comments and reports

    Tek Fog

    In January 2022, MP Derek O'Brien (Trinamool Congress) and a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs wrote to Anand Sharma, head of the committee to discuss the secret app "Tek Fog" that "has serious ramifications and could jeopardise national security". He wrote, "This application is capable of penetrating encrypted messaging platforms and secure social media conversations, in order to heavily manipulate and exploit narratives on said platforms." [3]

    On 12 January, Congress leader and leader of the party in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury also wrote to the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, Anand Sharma, asking the committee discuss the "Violative Software Application 'Tek Fog'", in their next meeting. [4]

    The Parliamentary standing committee asked the Union Home Ministry to provide information about the 'Tek Fog' app that was allegedly used for manipulating social media trends. On 12 February, responding to the request, MoS for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, "The ministry has searched for the app on all prominent app stores and APK stores and could not find so called app in any of these online stores." [5]

    Police reforms

    In 2022, the committee submitted to Rajya Sabha, its report titled "Police — Training, Modernisation and Reforms", the committee expressed concern about the low representation of women in police forces, at only 10.30%. [5]

    Chairpersons

    Sr. No.NameTerm of officeTermsPolitical party

    (Alliance)

    - Anand Sharma [2] 2019–Present3 INC

    See also

    Notes

    1. ↑ Chairperson of the committee for the current year.

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