| Standing Committee on Home Affairs | |
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| Above: | Department Related Standing Committee |
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| Header: | 17th Lok Sabha |
| Subheader: | 17th Lok Sabha |
| Label3: | Founded |
| Label4: | Country |
| Data4: |  India |
| Header5: | Leadership |
| Label6: | Chaiperson |
| Data6: | Anand Sharma |
| Label7: | Chairperson party |
| Data7: | Indian National Congress |
| Label8: | Appointer |
| Data8: | Lok sabha Speaker |
| Header9: | Structure |
| Label10: | Seats |
| Data10: | 31 Lok Sabha : 21 Rajya Sabha : 10 |
| Label11: | Political Parties |
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| Label12: | Election criteria |
| Data12: | The members are elected every year from amongst its members of respective houses according to the principle of proportional representation. |
| Label13: | Tenure |
| Data13: | 1 Year |
| Header14: | Jurisdiction |
| Label15: | Purpose |
| Data15: | Legislative oversight of the defence policies and decision making of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) |
| Header18: | Rules & Procedure |
| Label20: | Applicable rules |
| Data20: | Rule 331 C through N (page 122 - 125) Fifth Schedule (page 158)--> |
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs (SCOHA) is a department related standing committee (DRSC) of selected members of parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the purpose of legislative oversight of the domestic policy, internal security and decision making of the Ministry of Home Affairs. It is one of the 24 DRSCs that have been mandated with the onerous task of ministry specific oversight.
The committee currently is headed by MP Anand Sharma.[1]
Each of the committees have 31 members – 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha. These members are to be nominated by the Speaker of Lok Sabha or the Chairman of Rajya Sabha respectively. The term of office of these committees does not exceed one year. These committees are serviced either by Lok Sabha secretariat or the Rajya Sabha secretariat, depending on who has appointed the chairman of that committee.
In January 2022, MP Derek O'Brien (Trinamool Congress) and a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs wrote to Anand Sharma, head of the committee to discuss the secret app "Tek Fog" that "has serious ramifications and could jeopardise national security". He wrote, "This application is capable of penetrating encrypted messaging platforms and secure social media conversations, in order to heavily manipulate and exploit narratives on said platforms."[3]
On 12 January, Congress leader and leader of the party in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury also wrote to the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, Anand Sharma, asking the committee discuss the "Violative Software Application 'Tek Fog'", in their next meeting.[4]
The Parliamentary standing committee asked the Union Home Ministry to provide information about the 'Tek Fog' app that was allegedly used for manipulating social media trends. On 12 February, responding to the request, MoS for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, "The ministry has searched for the app on all prominent app stores and APK stores and could not find so called app in any of these online stores."[5]
In 2022, the committee submitted to Rajya Sabha, its report titled "Police — Training, Modernisation and Reforms", the committee expressed concern about the low representation of women in police forces, at only 10.30%.
| Sr. No. | Name | Term of office | Terms | Political party(Alliance)< | -- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buta Singh | 1993-95 | 2 | INC | ||
| 2 | No Public records found | 1995-98 | 3 | |||
| 3 | Kamal Chaudhary | 1998-99 | 1 | INC | ||
| 4 | Laxminarayan Pandey | 1999-2002 | 3 | BJP | ||
| 5 | Madan Lal Khurana | 2002-04 | 2 | |||
| 6 | Balasaheb Vikhe Patil | 2004-08 | 4 | INC | ||
| 7 | Satpal Maharaj | 2008-11 | 4 | |||
| 8 | Raj Babbar | 2012-14 | 2 | |||
| 9 | 2014-17 | 3 | BJP | |||
| 10 | Kalraj Mishra | 2017-19 | 2 --> | |||
| - | 2019–Present | 3 | INC | |||