Parliamentary Committee News

The panel’s focus will be on ways to financially assist street vendors and providing vending spaces near their homes

The joint parliamentary committee examining the Personal Data Protection Bill will propose to expand its scope to focus on overall data protection Apart from personal data, the Bill will also include non-personal data with sub-heads about sensitive data and critical data

The standing committee on chemicals and fertilizers will on Monday outline the criteria to decide on the issues related to vaccine production to be discussed by the panelThe panel's remit could increase with representatives from pharma companies likely to appear before its members

Twitter CEO and other top officials on Saturday refused to appear before the Parliamentary Committee on IT, which had summoned them over the issue of safeguarding citizens' rights on social media platforms, sources said. Twitter cited "short notice of the hearing" as the reason, despite being given 10 days to travel. The panel had issued a summon to Twitter via an official letter dated 1 February.

Parliamentary panel says such stringent norms stipulated by the RBI for banks ... is unrealistic and unwarranted

Issues related to demonetisation, reforms in the RBI, NPAs in the banking system, and state of the economy were listed as agenda items of the 31-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance

Narendra Modi's six top infrastructure initiatives, including the Smart Cities project, spent on average just 21% of the $5.6 billion allocated, says a parliamentary committee

The parliamentary standing committee on health, in its review of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016, recommended fixed prices for surrogacy instead of bargaining

There is a genuine case for live broadcasting of the testimonials of important public officials before parliamentary committees