Legislative Control over Administration through Committee on Public Accounts
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
The rapid expansion in the activities of the administrative departments and the growing complexities and technicalities of the legislative business have increased the workload of the Legislature. In order to enable the Legislature to cope with it, various Legislative Committees are constituted by the Legislature from amongst its members. These Committees "save time of the House for the discussion of important matters"i and are expected to keep effective surveillance and control over the gamut of governmental activity on behalf of the Legislature. There are two widely accepted models of Parliamentary Committees viz. the Committee System of the British Parliament and that of the American Congress each with its own distinctive features.ii The Committee System followed by the Indian Parliament seems to be nearer the Committee System of the British House of Commons with some variations. The Committees of the UP Assembly are largely modelled after the Committee system of the Indian Parliament. Committee on Public Accounts, one of the three Financial Committees of the U.P. Legislature, consisting of members of the lower House of legislature, is elected by the House in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote. It consists of 21 members.
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Anvita Massand
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