Parliamentary Committees In India

Consider the following statements with reference to the Parliamentary Committees in India:

  1. Parliamentary committees draw their authority from Article 105 (on privileges of Parliament members) and Article 118 (on Parliament’s authority to make rules for regulating its procedure and conduct of business).
  2. In India, the first Public Accounts Committee was constituted in April 1950.
  3. The practice of regularly referring bills to committees began in 1989 after government departments started forming their own standing committees.

Choose the correct statement(s) from the codes given below:

A
Only 1
B
2 and 3
C
1, 2 and 3
D
Only 3