Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman KV Thomas on Monday said a meeting with Finance Ministry officials has been deferred to February 10 in view of Budget preparations but RBI Governor Urjit Patel will appear before it as per schedule on January 20 on the demonetisation issue. PAC had asked Patel and FinMin officials to appear before the panel on January 20.
“The meeting is scheduled for January 20 and RBI Guv Urjit Patel is coming as per information available with me. But the FinMin officials will not be present on Jan, 20 meeting as they have asked for extension till the Budget exercise gets over,” Thomas told PTI. His remarks came after Nishikant Dubey, who is also member of PAC, had written to Thomas for deferring the Jan, 20 meeting. When contacted, BJP MP said he had requested Thomas to call the ministry officials after Feb, 10 as they were busy with preparations of the Union Budget which is to be presented on February 1.