parl panel plans privilege motion against chief secys who skipped meet

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday unanimously decided to move a privilege motion against the chief secretaries of seven states for failing to attend an important meeting on delays in disbursing pre-matric and post-matric scholarships to Scheduled Caste (SC) students, committee chairman KC Venugopal said, calling the delays “shocking” and the lack of coordination between the Centre and states a “serious issue”