Adhir writes to LS Speaker, seeks early PAC meet to discuss COVID vaccination policy ANI | Updated: May 14, 2021 02:11 IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Congress leader in Lok Sabha and chairman of the Parliament s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for an early PAC meeting to deliberate upon the pandemic situation and the government s Covid-19 vaccination policy. Today, the Policy towards vaccinating the people for tackling the Covid-19 pandemic has become central and of utmost importance. As the lives and livelihood of the people of the Country as a whole are dependant on an effective Vaccination Policy , I would request you to kindly permit the Public Accounts Committee to meet and deliberate upon this subject matter with the representatives of the Government i.e, the Ministry of Health, ICMR and others concerned (By any mode either physical or virtual, depending upon the Covid
The Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) has appointed Helen Campbell as its new director of strategy, performance and assurance.
As the head of the government s project-delivery system, Campbell (pictured) will be responsible for driving cross-government and industry collaboration, as well as pushing improvements in project delivery, the IPA said. The authority aims to achieve this with better benchmarking data and by gathering independent assessments on project delivery.
IPA chief executive Nick Smallwood said: With the publication of the National Infrastructure Strategy and the government’s commitment to build back better, it has never been more important to consistently deliver our major projects successfully.
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Utusan Malaysia reported. The Emergency Ordinance states that Parliament meetings, including hearings by the committees, will not go on as they are suspended during the Emergency period. I have referred the matter to Parliament s legal advisers. This does not mean that the check-and-balance process is not happening in Parliament although its meetings and that its committees have been suspended. On the contrary, all expenditure will be audited once the Emergency ends, he told
Utusan Malaysia.
Azhar noted that there was no escaping the check-and-balance process for government expenditure.
Apart from the Parliament s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the Rights and Freedoms Committee and Select Committee are required to convene when Parliament meets.
MP SPEAKS | Govt must be transparent on combat ship saga
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MP SPEAKS | The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) saga was one of several issues that was brought to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Home Affairs when I chaired it from December 2019 until December 2020.
We must remember that LCS is one the largest defence procurement for new equipment undertaken in Malaysia’s history.
The Special Investigation Committee on Public Governance, Procurement, and Finance (JKSTUPKK) had stated that the LCS was one of the vendor-driven procurements undertaken by the Defence Ministry, where the requests and needs of the contractor prevailed over that of the end-user, the Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM).