A Joint Parliamentary Committee
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Current affairsFCRA Amendment Bill 2026: 31-Member JPC Constituted Under Sanjay Jaiswal — Foreign Funding Regulation and Its UPSC SignificanceLok Sabha Speaker Om Birla constituted a 31-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on September 3, 2026 to examine the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026. BJP MP Sanjay Jaiswal (Bettiah, Bihar) was appointed Chairperson. The JPC — comprising 21 Lok Sabha and 10 Rajya Sabha members — must submit its report by the first week of the Winter Session (November–December 2026). Current affairsFCRA Amendment Bill 2026 Referred to JPC: What Changes, Why It's Contested, and Civil Society ImplicationsLok Sabha referred the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 to a 31-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on August 12, 2026. The bill — introduced by the Ministry of Home Affairs on March 25, 2026 — proposes creating a Designated Authority to vest and manage foreign contributions of organisations whose FCRA registration is cancelled, surrendered, or not renewed. Tamil Nadu's legislature and churches in Mizoram have formally opposed the bill over concerns about asset seizure and minority institutional autonomy. Current affairsPRAHAAR: India's First National Counter-Terrorism Policy and Strategy — A Whole-of-Government FrameworkThe Ministry of Home Affairs released PRAHAAR — India's first comprehensive National Counter-Terrorism Policy and Strategy — on 23 February 2026. The eight-page doctrine integrates counter-terrorism, counter-radicalization, cybersecurity, and coordinated response under a "whole-of-government" and "whole-of-society" framework anchored in the UAPA, PMLA, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Current affairsViksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025: Parliament Considers Replacing UGC, AICTE and NCTE with Single Higher Education RegulatorThe Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill, 2025 — introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 15, 2025 and backed by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report in July 2026 — proposes replacing the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) with a single apex regulator, the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Commission, aligned with the National Education Policy 2020. Current affairsEnforcement Directorate Director Rahul Navin Gets One-Year Tenure Extension: Governance and PMLA ImplicationsThe Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved a one-year extension in the tenure of Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director Rahul Navin, extending his term from 13 August 2026 to 13 August 2027. The extension also allows Navin to continue in service beyond his superannuation date of 31 July 2027, or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
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- The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill, 2025 introduced in Parliament in December 2025 was referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). Who chaired this JPC?UPSC · Current Affairs
- What is a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), and how does it differ from a Parliamentary Standing Committee? Consider the following: 1. A JPC is constituted for a specific purpose (such as scrutinising one bill) and ceases to exist on submitting its report. 2. A Standing Committee is a permanent committee that examines all bills referred to it in a given subject area across sessions. 3. Both JPC and Standing Committees can summon witnesses and call for documents. 4. The FCRA Amendment Bill 2026 JPC has 31 members — 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha. Which of the above statements are correct?UPSC · Current Affairs