Om Birla rejigs 4 House panels for 2026-27; most chiefs stay on

New Delhi: Three financial committees and one department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee have been reconstituted by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for the 2026-27 financial year.

Parliamentary committees are reconstituted annually, with the terms of these four expiring on April 30. They were officially reconstituted on May 1, 2026, and will serve till April 30, 2027.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Faggan Singh Kulaste has been reappointed chairperson of the Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. BJP MPs Baijayant Jay Panda and Sanjay Jaiswal have also retained the chairpersonship of the Committee on Public Undertakings and the Committee on Estimates, respectively.


Congress leader KC Venugopal has been reappointed chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee.

The chairperson is elected from among the members of the committee in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote.

The Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes consists of 30 members-20 elected by the Lok Sabha and 10 by the Rajya Sabha. The Committee on Public Undertakings consists of 22 members, of whom 15 are elected by the Lok Sabha and seven nominated by the Rajya Sabha.

The Committee on Estimates consists of 30 members elected every year by the Lok Sabha from among its members.

The Public Accounts Committee consists of not more than 22 members, comprising 15 elected by the Lok Sabha and not more than seven from the Rajya Sabha.

The scope and functions of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) are governed under Rule 308(1) of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha.

The PAC ensures 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.

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 examines the circumstances leading to such excess and makes recommendations as it deems fit.