Department Related Standing Committee
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What are DRSCs?
- Department Related Standing Committees or DRSCs are committees, consisting of Members of Parliament, for in-depth consideration of proposed legislations.
- The need for DRSCs in law-making was felt for many years before the first 3 standing committees were formed in 1989. Later, 17 DRSCs were constituted in 1993 to strengthen the government’s accountability to the Parliament.
- Each committee has 31 members nominated by the Speaker of Lok Sabha or the Chairman of Rajya Sabha. The members are from both Houses of the Parliament- with 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha i.e. a ratio of 2:1.
- Currently, there are 24 such committees- 8 of which are under the Chairman’s jurisdiction and the remaining 16 are under the Sp
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