Om Birla rejigs 4 House panels for 2026-27; most chiefs stay on

Exam-focused facts from the 3 May 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla reconstituted four parliamentary committees for the 2026-27 financial year.
The committees were officially reconstituted on May 1, 2026, and will serve till April 30, 2027.
BJP MP Faggan Singh Kulaste was reappointed chairperson of the Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Congress leader KC Venugopal was reappointed chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee.
The Public Accounts Committee consists of not more than 22 members, comprising 15 elected by the Lok Sabha and not more than seven from the Rajya Sabha.