CCEA - Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

 

CCEA - Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

• CCEA is one of the Cabinet Committees

Composition of CCEA in 2021 year 

Prime Minister	Shri Narendra Modi
Minister of Defence	Shri Raj Nath Singh
Minister of Home Affairs	Shri Amit Shah
Minister of Road Transport and Highways	Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari
Minister of Finance;	Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
Minister of Agriculture	Shri Narendra Singh Tomar
Minister of External Affairs	Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Minister of Commerce and Industry	Shri Piyush Goyal
Minister of Education	Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

 

Cabinet Committees are 

1. Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

2. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.

3. Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.

4. Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth.

5. Cabinet Committee on Security.

6. Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs.

7. Cabinet Committee on Employment & Skill Development.

8. Cabinet Committee on Accommodation.

• All committees except Cabinet Committee on Accommodation and Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs are headed by Prime Minister.

The object of the Cabinet committees are 

1.  To lessen the enormous workload of the Cabinet. 

2. Facilitate an in-depth examination of policy issues 

3. Principle of the division of labour and effective delegation

4. Frame proposals for the Cabinet’s consideration

5. Also, take decisions, but of course, Cabinet can review such decisions. 

• COM - Council of Ministers is a Constitutional body by Articles 74 & 75 of Constitution of India, whereas the Cabinet Committee is an extra-constitutional body (not mentioned in the Constitution of India)  in emergence. 

• Although Cabinet committees are not constitutional bodies, their work cannot be under estimated as they provide crucial guidance to the Cabinet. 

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