Lok Sabha Speaker opens the all-India conference of Public Accounts Committee chairpersons at the Kerala Assembly
3 November 2026
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla opened the All-India Conference of Chairpersons and Members of Public Accounts Committees at the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
Delegates and officials from 26 states are taking part, and the two-day plenary sits in the Assembly Hall.
Its theme is "Audit, Accountability and Good Governance: Evolving Role of the PAC".
K.C. Venugopal, who chairs Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, called the PAC the biggest tool of parliamentary financial control and asked that one PAC report be taken up in every session of Parliament.
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan proposed a special campaign to clear pending PAC files.
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson Harivansh Narayan Singh and Kerala PAC chairperson K.N. Balagopal also took part; the conference closes on 4 November.
In plain words
PAC Public Accounts Committee — The committee of a legislature that examines audited government accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General's reports.