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Cabinet Committees

Cabinet Committees

  • New ministers inducted into the Union Cabinet were named to Cabinet committees mandated to deal with matters such as Centre-state issues, investment, and growth.
  • The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet includes Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah.
  • Three of the new ministers, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Narayan Rane, and Ashwini Vaishnav, were included in the committee that oversees investment and growth.
  • Bhupender Yadav, Sarbananda Sonowal, and Mansukh Mandaviya, apart from Cabinet ministers Smriti Irani and Giriraj Singh, were included in the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.

Cabinet Committees:

  • Cabinet Committees are extra-constitutional in emergence, which means, they are not mentioned in the Indian Constitution.
  • Rules of Business provide for their formation.
  • The executive in India works under the Government of India Transaction of Business Rules, 1961.
  • They are established by the PM as per the exigencies of the time and needs of the situation.
  • Their number, nomenclature, and composition vary from time to time.

They are of two types—

  1. standing (permanent)
  2. ad hoc (temporary).
  • Ad hoc committees are formed at times to deal with special problems.
  • They are disbanded after their job is done.
  • Their membership varies from three to eight.
  • They usually include only Cabinet Ministers. However, the non-cabinet Ministers are not debarred from their membership.

Eight Cabinet Committees

  1. Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
  2. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.
  3. Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.
  4. Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth.
  5. Cabinet Committee on Security.
  6. Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs.
  7. Cabinet Committee on Employment & Skill Development.
  8. Cabinet Committee on Accommodation.
  • All committees except Cabinet Committee on Accommodation and Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs are headed by Prime Minister.

Role of Cabinet Committees:

  • They are established to lessen the enormous workload of the Cabinet.
  • They facilitate an in-depth examination of policy issues and effective coordination
  • They not only resolve issues and frame proposals for the Cabinet’s consideration, but they also take decisions.
  • The Cabinet can review their decisions.

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