How many types of committees are there in the Lok Sabha?
Answer Parliamentary Committees are of two kinds: Ad hoc Committees and the Standing Committees. Ad hoc Committees are constituted by the House or by the Presiding officers, singly or jointly for a specific purpose and cease to exist when they finish the task assigned to them and submit a report. The usual Ad hoc committees are the Select/Joint Committees on Bills and others like, the Railway Convention Committee, set up to review the rate of dividend payable by Railways to the General Revenues and those constituted to enquire into and report on specific subjects. The Standing Committees are those Committees which are either elected by the House or nominated by the Presiding Officer(s) (i.e., The Speaker in case of the Lok Sabha and the Chairman in the case of the Rajya Sabha) periodically and are permanent in nature. The Standing Committees of the Lok Sabha are : Business Advisory Committee, General Purposes Committee, Committee on Government Assurances, House Committee, Committee on
