Appointments and consultations! LS speaker sets up joint panel on offices of profit, placing BJP MP Satya Pal Singh as chairperson

New Delhi, September 17: Viewing to examine the composition and character of various committees of the the Central and state governments, Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla on Tuesday has set up a Joint Committee on Offices of Profit, nominating BJP MP Satya Pal Singh as its chairperson.

 

 

"The speaker has appointed Satya Pal Singh as the chairperson of the Joint Committee on Offices of Profit", the statement read. For the 15 member committee for the tenure of 17th Lok Sabha, the speaker also nominated five members from the upper House and nine from the Lower House.

 

Singh had also chaired the panel set up for the previous House, the 16th Lok Sabha. The Joint Committee on Offices of Profit is mandated to examine the composition various committees governments and to recommend the membership or chairpersonship of which of them have to treated as an office of profit.

 

A parliamentarian is liable to incur disqualification for becoming the member or chairperson of an office of profit. The committee's reports are presented to Lok Sabha and laid on the table of Rajya Sabha.