POLICY ANALYSES

A social watchdog has expressed concern over the fact that 25 per cent of the Lok Sabha members of Parliament are industrialists, traders, businessmen and builders, saying that this can cause a potential of conflict of interest.
POLICY ANALYSES

The citizens' report on governance and development 2010, released by the National Social Watch in New Delhi on Tuesday, says there is also increasing potential of conflict of interests in the members of the standing committees. It calls for strict rationalisation of the parliamentary committee system, especially in terms of their tenure and reduction of members of the standing and financial committees to 20 for better cohesion in working.