10 bipartisan panels to act as check and balance

THE Dewan Rakyat has set up 10 bipartisan Special Parliamentary Select Committees (SPSC), with Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said tabling a motion to establish the committees.

The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) announced the respective SPSC would cover finance and economy; health; domestic trade, entrepreneurship, cost of living and agriculture; infrastructure, transport and communications; nation-building, education and human resource development; women, children and community development; environment, science and plantations; security; international relations and trade; and human rights, elections and institutional reforms.