Ministry of I&B related standing Committee Constituted

The Standing Committee relating to Information Technology has been constituted with Sh. Rao Inderjit Singh as its Chairman. The Committee on Information Technology looks after the issues of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The newly constituted committee has 17 members from Lok Sabha and nine members from Rajya Sabha.

The members from Lok Sabha include S/Sh. Abdul RahmanAbdul Rahman (DMK), Shivaji Adhalrao Patil (Shiv Sena), Rajendra Agrawal (BJP), Nikhil Kumar Choudhary (BJP), Milind Murli Deora (INC), Rajen Gohain (BJP), Mithlesh Kumar (Samajwadi Party), Inder Singh Namdhari (Independent), Prem Das Rai (Sikkim Democratic Front), Tathagata Satpathy (Biju Janta Dal), Bhola Singh (BJP),Dhananjay Singh (BSP),Sushil Kumar Singh (Janata Dal United),C.Sivasami (AIADMK),Dharmendra Yadav (Samajwadi Party) and Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh(BJP) as also M.Vijaya Shanthi (Telangana Rashtra Samithi)

The Members from Rajya Sabha include S/Sh.: M P Achuthan (CPI), Rajkumar Dhoot (Shiv Sena), N.R.Govindarajar(AIADMK), Prabhat Jha (BJP), Shriram Pal (BSP), Ravi ShankarRavi Shankar Prasad (BJP), P.Rajeeve (CPI(M), Dharam Pal Sabharwal (INC) and Prof.Alka Balram Kshatriya (INC)

The Standing Committees examine the demands for grants, bills, annual reports of the departments concerned and long-term policy documents presented to the Houses.

(EOM)