Meeting of Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to be held today

NEW DELHI:The meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament will be held at the Parliament House Annexe in the national capital on Tuesday.

The session is scheduled to begin at around 11 am and will include representatives from the Ministry of Communications and the Department of Telecommunications.

The meeting agenda features a briefing by the Audit, followed by oral evidence from representatives of the Ministry of Communications and the Department of Telecommunications on the subject, “Audit on Revenue Sharing by Telecom Service Providers with Government,” based on Chapter IV of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) Compliance Audit Report No. 1 of 2025.

Earlier on May 5, Congress leader KC Venugopal was re-appointed chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which was constituted on May 1.

The Committee on Public Accounts, which is the oldest and the most prestigious Committee of Parliament, is constituted every year for examination of accounts showing the appropriation of sums granted by Parliament for expenditure of the Government of India and such other accounts laid before Parliament as accounts of autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies, the Lok Sabha Secretariat stated.

The Committee also examines the Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on various subjects, including Civil, Defence, Posts, Railways, and Taxation. Additionally, it reviews the C&AG Reports on Performance Appraisals of various Centrally Sponsored Schemes, as well as on subjects selected suo moto.

Meanwhile, the Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the Committee examines instances of financial irregularities, extravagance, losses, delays, etc, and it also scrutinises in depth, various aspects of the Government’s tax administration.

Since 1967, a convention has been established whereby an eminent leader from the Opposition in the Lok Sabha is appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee on Public Accounts.

In the past, the Committee has been chaired by eminent Parliamentarians such as Prof. NG Ranga, MR Masani, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Jyotirmoy Basu, HN Mukherjee, PV Narasimha Rao, R Venkataraman, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, etc, Lok Sabha Secretariat stated.

During the first year of the 18th Lok Sabha, the Committee on Public Accounts (2024-25) demonstrated remarkable diligence, scrutinising a wide array of performance appraisal subjects alongside routine transaction audit paragraphs from the Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. (ANI)