Overview

• The Lok Sabha Secretariat notified updated compositions for 24 departmental standing committees effective September 26, with several incumbent chairs such as Shashi Tharoor retained.
• Tejasvi Surya was appointed chair of the Select Committee on the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025, a 24‑member panel drawn from the Lok Sabha.
• The Jan Vishwas Bill seeks to decriminalise minor offences across multiple laws to ease compliance, with the committee tasked to review amendments and assess socio‑economic impacts before reporting to Parliament.
• Baijayant Panda will chair the Select Committee on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which proposes measures to speed up insolvency resolution, including default‑based admission and other process reforms.
• A separate parliamentary panel to examine pending Home Ministry bills had not yet been constituted at the time of notification.