The State Government on Wednesday formed a five-member committee to study the functioning of legislative Councils in other States.
A notification was issued by the Parliamentary Affairs Department to this effect. The committee has three members from the ruling BJD and one each from the Congress and the BJP, informed Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh. Nrusingha Sahu, Pramila Mallick and Manohar Randhari (BJD and Bhujbal Majhi (Congress) and Nitesh Gangdev (BJP) were made the committee’s members. The committee headed by Nrusingha Sahu would visit Maharashtra and Karnataka later this month to study the functioning of the legislative Councils there and submit a report to the Government by the end of this month.