PAC and ControversyConsensus and controversy have been the contradictory faces of the PAC’s functioning over the past few decades. This is part of a pattern: while the PAC cannot finalise any report without consensus, the lack of consensus has frequently seen controversy over the role of the Chairman. “While other Department Related Standing Committees can adopt reports with dissent notes by some members, the PAC must adopt all reports by consensus. This is unique about the PAC, and helps it maintain neutrality,” BJP member in the panel, Nishikant Dubey, said. PAC in the PastThe PAC website says the Committee on Public Accounts was first set up in 1921 in the wake of the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms.

Source: Indian Express January 10, 2017 19:22 UTC