Over 36 Vacancies in Standing Committees in Both Houses, 3 Chairpersons Yet to be Appointed

First-time ministers Nisith Pramanik, Shantanu Thakur, Dr Subash Sarkar, John Barla, Pratima Bhowmik, Darshana Jardosh, Pankaj Chaudhary, SP Singh Baghel and Ajay Kumar — all have been members of some standing committee and thus these posts now remain vacant.