{"id":26349,"date":"2025-03-21T02:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26349"},"modified":"2025-04-08T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:59:10","slug":"public-accounts-committee-pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/public-accounts-committee-pac\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Accounts Committee (PAC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised the Union Ministry of Tourism for the poor implementation of the Swadesh Darshan Scheme.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Established in 1921<\/strong> (oldest parliamentary committee in India).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: Audits the revenue and expenditure of the Government of India<\/strong> to ensure <strong>public funds are spent efficiently and legally<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key functions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examines the CAG audit report<\/strong> on government expenditure.<\/li>\n<li>Ensures money <strong>sanctioned by Parliament is spent properly<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Investigates <strong>financial irregularities, losses, and inefficiencies<\/strong> in government spending.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Membership:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>22 members<\/strong> (<strong>15 from Lok Sabha, 7 from Rajya Sabha<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chairperson:<\/strong> A <strong>Lok Sabha MP<\/strong>, traditionally from the <strong>Opposition<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Term: One year<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ministers cannot be members<\/strong> of the PAC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About the Swadesh Darshan Scheme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Launched:2015<\/strong> by the <strong>Ministry of Tourism<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To <strong>develop sustainable and responsible tourism destinations<\/strong> in India by creating <strong>thematic tourist circuits<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding:100% centrally funded<\/strong> scheme.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementation:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Ministry of Tourism provides financial assistance<\/strong> to State Governments, UT Administrations, and Central Agencies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operation &amp; Maintenance (O&amp;M)<\/strong> is the responsibility of the <strong>respective State\/UT government<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Development of <strong>theme-based tourism circuits<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure development such as <strong>roads, signage, parking, and public amenities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Eco-tourism and heritage conservation efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Public Accounts Committee (PAC) FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What is the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a parliamentary committee in India responsible for auditing the revenue and expenditure of the government. It ensures financial accountability and transparency in public spending.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>When was the Public Accounts Committee established?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The PAC was first set up in 1921 under the Government of India Act, 1919.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>Who appoints the Chairman of the PAC?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Speaker of the Lok Sabha appoints the Chairman of the PAC, who is traditionally from the opposition party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pac-members-flag-failure-of-swadesh-darshan-scheme\/article69354652.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) audits government revenue &#038; expenditure, ensuring financial accountability &#038; transparency in India\u2019s public spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}