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What is Public Accounts Committee and Joint Parliamentary Committee?
Bengaluru, Dec 15: After the Supreme Court dismissed petitions demanding probe into pricing of Rafale jet deal, opposition parties are started demanding Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the matter.
The government in its submission to the apex court said that the CAG report was presented in the house and in Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the committee has probed it. However, Public Accounts Committee, Chairman, Mallikarjun Kharge denied that government submitted report to the PAC.
What is the difference between PAC and JPC?
Functions
of
Public
Accounts
Committee:
The
functions
of
the
Committee,
as
enshrined
in
Rule
308(1)
of
the
Rules
of
Procedure
and
Conduct
of
Business
in
Lok
Sabha,
include
examination
of
accounts
showing
the
appropriation
of
sums
granted
by
Parliament
for
the
expenditure
of
the
Government
of
India,
the
annual
finance
accounts
of
the
Government
and
such
other
accounts
laid
before
the
House
as
the
Committee
may
think
fit.
In
scrutinizing
the
Appropriation
Accounts
of
the
Government
of
India
and
the
Report
of
the
Comptroller
&
Auditor
General
of
India
thereon,
the
Committee
has
to
satisfy:
(a) that the moneys shown in the accounts as having been disbursed were legally available for, and applicable to, the service or purpose to which they have been applied or charged;
(b) that the expenditure conforms to the authority which governs it; and
(c)
that
every
re-appropriation
has
been
made
in
accordance
with
the
provisions
made
in
this
behalf
under
rules
framed
by
competent
authority.
It
shall
also
be
the
duty
of
the
Committee
-
(a)
to
examine
the
statement
of
accounts
showing
the
income
and
expenditure
of
state
corporations,
trading
and
manufacturing
schemes,
concerns
and
projects
together
with
the
balance
sheets
and
statements
of
profit
and
loss
accounts
which
the
President
may
have
required
to
be
prepared
or
are
prepared
under
the
provisions
of
the
statutory
rules
regulating
the
financing
of
a
particular
corporation,
trading
or
manufacturing
scheme
or
concern
or
project
and
the
report
of
the
Comptroller
and
Auditor
General
thereon.
(b) to examine the statement of accounts showing the income and expenditure of autonomous and semi autonomous bodies, the audit of which may be conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India either under the directions of the President or by a statute of Parliament; and
(c) to consider the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General in cases where the President may have required him to conduct an audit of any receipts or to examine the accounts of stores and stocks.
If any money has been spent on any service during a financial year in excess of the amount granted by the House for that purpose the Committee shall examine with reference to the facts of each case the circumstances leading to such an excess and make such recommendation as it may deem fit.
Joint Parliamentary Committee: Its is an ad-hoc body set up for a specific object and duration. Joint committees are set up by a motion passed in one house of Parliament and agreed to by the other. The details regarding membership and subjects are also decided by Parliament.
A JPC can obtain evidence of experts, public bodies, associations, individuals or interested parties suo motu or on requests made by them. If a witness fails to appear before a JPC in response to summons, his conduct constitutes a contempt of the House. The JPC can take oral and written evidence or call for documents in connection with a matter under its consideration. The proceedings of parliamentary committees are confidential, but in the case of the joint committee which went into "Irregularities in Securities and Banking Transactions", the committee decided that considering the widespread public interest in the matter, the chairman should brief the press about deliberations of the committees.
For example, the fifth JPC constituted to probe 2G case. It was headed by P.C. Chacko. It had 30 members. 15 opposition members belonging to BJP, JD (U), CPI, CPM, Trinamool Congress, BJD, DMK and the AIADMK in the 30-member panel accused P.C. Chacko of being "partisan" and demanded his removal (They submitted a memorandum to the Lok Sabha Speaker expressing their "no-confidence") as they criticised the draft report for giving clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram. So PC Chacko agreed to amend the JPC draft report.
