With reference to Public Accounts Committee, which of the following statements is/are correct ?
1. Public Accounts Committee submits its report to the Lok Sabha.
2. Public Accounts Committee consists

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With reference to Public Accounts Committee, which of the following statements is/are correct ?
1. Public Accounts Committee submits its report to the Lok Sabha.
2. Public Accounts Committee consists of 15 members from Rajya Sabha.
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Correct — D, Only 1. Statement 1 is right: the Public Accounts Committee is a committee of Parliament that examines the audit reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General after they are laid before the House, and it presents its reports back to the House — its chairperson is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and its reports are presented in the Lok Sabha. Statement 2 is wrong, and wrong in a very specific way: the PAC has not more than twenty-two members, of whom fifteen are elected by the Lok Sabha and not more than seven by the Rajya Sabha. The figure fifteen is real — it is simply the Lok Sabha's share, and the question has handed it to the wrong House. The Rajya Sabha contributes seven. With only statement 1 surviving, the answer is Only 1.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) The most-marked wrong option, because statement 1 is true and 'fifteen' is a number candidates genuinely associate with the PAC. But fifteen is the Lok Sabha quota; the Rajya Sabha sends not more than seven, making a total of twenty-two.  (b) Exactly backwards. It rejects the true statement about the committee reporting to the Lok Sabha and accepts the one that misplaces fifteen members in the Rajya Sabha.  (c) This denies statement 1, which is correct — the PAC is chaired by a nominee of the Lok Sabha Speaker and lays its reports before the House.

Concept: The Public Accounts Committee is the senior of Parliament's three financial committees. Set up in 1921 under the Government of India Act, 1919, it has not more than twenty-two members — fifteen elected by the Lok Sabha and not more than seven by the Rajya Sabha — chosen every year by proportional representation through the single transferable vote, for a term of one year. A minister cannot be elected to it. Its core task is a post-mortem of money already spent: it examines the CAG's audit reports on the Appropriation Accounts and Finance Accounts once they are laid in Parliament, and reports its findings back to the House. Its recommendations carry great persuasive weight but are advisory, not binding.

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