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- The Government of India has reconstituted eight key cabinet committees under the Transaction of Business Rules.
- The Cabinet Committee are organizations which are instrumental in reducing the workload of the Cabinet.The Cabinet Committees are extra-constitutional in emergence.
- In other words,they are not mentioned in the Constitution.However, the Rules of Business provide for their establishment.
- These Rules emerge out of Article 77(3) of the Constitution which states that the President shall make rules for the more convenient transaction of the business of the Government of India, and for the allocation among Ministers of the said business.
- The composition of a Cabinet Committee varies from 3 to 8 people.Even Ministers who are not part of the Cabinet can be added to a Cabinet Committee.Usually,each cabinet committee has at least one Cabinet Minister.The members of the Cabinet Committee can be from both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
- There are two type types of cabinet committees (a)Standing Cabinet Committees and (b)Ad-hoc Cabinet Committees.
- Standing cabinet Committees are permanent in nature with a specific job.The Cabinet Ministers are called its members while the people without the rank of Cabinet Committee are called special invitees.
- The Prime Minister constitutes Standing Committees of the Cabinet and sets out the specific functions assigned to them.He can add or reduce the number of committees.
- On the other hand,Ad-hoc Cabinet Committee are temporary in nature and are formed from time to time to deal with specific tasks.




