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Parliament's Public Accounts Committee
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is Parliament's oldest committee: 22 members who examine the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit reports on how the Union government spent the money Parliament granted. On 3-4 November 2026 the chairpersons of the PACs of Parliament and the State and UT legislatures met in Thiruvananthapuram and adopted a resolution on digital audit tracking, fixed reply deadlines and more frequent sittings.
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New card: the PAC's origin, membership, chair convention and mandate against the Estimates Committee and COPU, with the Thiruvananthapuram resolution of 4 November 2026.
- Public Accounts Committee
- PAC
- CAG
- Estimates Committee
- COPU
- financial committees
- Audit Para Monitoring System
- Lok Sabha
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