STANDING COMMITTEES OF PARLIAMENT

Lok Sabha

Sl.	Name of the Committee	Whether elected or nominated	No. of members	Term
1	2	3	4	5
1.	Business Advisory Committee	Nominated	15	Till reconstituted
2.	Committee on Private Members’ Bills and Resolutions	Nominated	15	One year
3.	Committee on Petitions	Nominated	15	Till reconstituted
4.	Committee on Estimates	Elected	30	One year
5.	Committee of Privileges	Nominated	15	Till reconstituted
6.	Committee on Subordinate Legislation	Nominated	15	One year
7.	Committee on Government Assurances	Nominated	15	One year
8.	Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House	Nominated	15	One year
9.	Rules Committee	Nominated	15	Till reconstituted
10.	General Purposes Committee	Nominated	@	Till reconstituted
11.	House Committee	Nominated	15	One year
12.	Public Accounts Committee	Elected	22 (15- Lok Sabha) ( 7-Rajya Sabha)*	One year
13.	Committee on Public Undertakings	Elected	22 (15- Lok Sabha) ( 7-Rajya Sabha)*	One year
14.	Library Committee	Nominated	9 (6- Lok Sabha) (3-Rajya Sabha)*	One year
15.	Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes	Elected	30 (20-Lok Scheduled Tribes Sabha) (10-Rajya Sabha)*	One year
16.	Committee on Papers Laid on the Table	Nominated	15	One year

@ Consisting of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker, members of the Panel of Chairmen, Chairmen of all Standing Committees of the Lok Sabha, leaders of recognized parties and groups and such other members as may be nominated by the Speaker.

* Members of the Rajya Sabha are also associated with these committees

Rajya Sabha

Sl.	Name of the Committee	Whether elected or nominated	No. of members	Term
1	2	3	4	5
1.	Business Advisory Committee	Nominated	11 (including Chairman & Deputy Chairman)	Till reconstituted
2.	Committee of Privileges	Nominated	10	-do-
3.	Committee on Petitions	Nominated	10	-do-
4.	Committee on Rules	Nominated	16	-do-
5.	Committee on Subordinate Legislation	Nominated	15	-do-
6.	Committee on Government Assurances	Nominated	10	-do-
7.	House Committee	Nominated	7	-do-
8.	General Purposes Committee	Nominated	@@	*
9.	Committee on Papers Laid on the Table	Nominated	10	Till reconstituted
10.	Committee on MPLAD Scheme	Nominated	10	Tenure of the Members (in RS)
11.	Ethics Committee	Nominated	10	Till reconstituted
12.	Committee on Provision of computers to MPs (RS)	Nominated	7	Tenure of the Members (in RS)

@@ Consisting of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, panel of Vice Chairman, Chairman of all Standing Committees of the Rajya Sabha, Leaders of recognized parties and groups and such other members as may be nominated by the Chairman.

* Not provided in the rules but is constituted every year.

Joint Committess

Sl.	Name of the Committee	Whether elected or nominated	No. of members	Term
1	2	3	4	5
1.	Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament	Nominated	15 (10- Lok Sabha) ( 5-Rajya Sabha)	One year
2.	Joint Committee on offices of Profit	Elected	15 (10- Lok Sabha) (5-Rajya Sabha)	Co-terminus with the life of Lok Sabha
3.	Committee on the Empowerment of Women	Nominated	30 (20-Lok Sabha) (10- Rajya Sabha)	One year
4.	Joint Parliamentary Committee on the functioning of Wakf Boards	Nominated	30 (20-Lok Sabha) (10- Rajya Sabha)	No fixed tenure
5.	Joint Committee on Security in Parliament House complex	Nominated	10 (7-Lok Sabha) (3- Rajya Sabha)	No fixed tenure