To streamline its daily activities, formulate and implement people-oriented policies, Punjab Government on Wednesday constituted 18 State Advisory Committees comprising MlAs from all political parties in the State.
The committees have been set up to streamline the day-to-day functioning of the State Government by formulating people-oriented policies and implementing them in an effective manner besides advising the Government on important issues of public interest.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal cleared the formation of the committees, and the tenure of these committees would be till March 31, 2015, or the validity of current State Assembly from the period of issuing of notification regarding them, whichever was earlier.
The Punjab Government could, at any point of time, change the membership, name and constitution of committee besides even reconstituting it.
It has been made mandatory for the committee to meet once within three months and one meeting of the committee would be held during the session of State Assembly and one meeting must be convened between the two sessions of the Assembly.
The headquarters of these committees would be Chandigarh and the prescribed quorum for these meetings would be four members. The committees include State Advisory Committee on Personnel, General Admin-istration, Cooperation, Science, Technology and Environment, Vigilance, Civil Aviation and Justice, Home, Governance Reforms, Housing and Urban Development, Excise and Taxation, Investment Prom-otion, Sports and Youth Services.
Besides, committee has also been formed on Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Information Technology and Food Processing Department, Transport, law and legal Affairs, Elections, Employment Generation and Training, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development and SCs-BCs Welfare, Industry and Commerce, Technical Education and Industrial Training and Parliamentary Affairs.
Finance and Planning, Institutional Finance and Banking and Program Implementation, Jails, Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Archives, Museums and Printing and Stationary, Public Works (B&R), Defence Service Welfare, Grievances and Pension Welfare, Health and Family Welfare, Social Security and Woman and Child Development, Agriculture and NRI Affairs, Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management, Information and Public Relations and Non-Conventional Energy Resources, Rural Development and Panchayat, local Government, Medical Education and Research, Higher Education and languages, Water Supply and Sanitation, Irrigation, Education.
While the Cabinet Minister in-charge of the respective department has been the chairman, the Chief Parliamentary Secretary of his own department would be the cooperation member.