Parliament standing panels to be in place by August end: Naidu

Update: 2014-08-19 23:30 GMT
Parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said the announcement of names and the setting up of the committees would be completed by this week and that these panels would start functioning by this month end. ‘The spadework for the standing committees has been done. Political parties have already given their names. Of course, some of them were late.

‘I think, from on Tuesday onwards, the work will start and be completed this week,’ he told reporters here.

‘They (the panels) should start working immediately in the inter session period between August and November. The standing committees will meet and they will address the issues referred to them,’ he added.

Meanwhile, welcoming the talks between the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana chief ministers in a bid to sort out differences between the two states on various issues, Naidu said that the Centre would not interfere in the administrative functioning of state governments.

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