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Delhi: A meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on
Home Affairs scheduled for June 3 to discuss the impact of the lockdown has
been postponed after a majority of the members expressed their inability to
attend, said sources.
Home Secretary was scheduled to appear and brief the committee on the ongoing lockdown and its impact on the country.
This was supposed to be the first meeting of a Standing Committee after the announcement of the lockdown on March 24.
The Chairman of the committee is Congress Deputy Leader in Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma who had called the meet. Earlier in April the move of the virtual meet of the Committee was stalled by Rajya Sabha secreteriat on the ground that the standing committee procedure can't be held virtually as there is a secrecy clause attached to it.
The Congress has been demanding parliamentary oversight on the government functioning. This meeting would have paved the way for other standing committee meetings. (IANS)
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