18 Facts About Congress Working Committee

1. In 2005, the Congress Working Committee-led government started the National Rural Health Mission, which employed about 500,000 community health workers.

2. Congress Working Committee believes the Indian economy should be liberalised to increase the pace of development.

3. Congress Working Committee was structured in a hierarchical manner by Mohandas Gandhi's when he took charge as the president of the party in 1921.

4. Congress Working Committee's was succeeded by her son Rahul Gandhi.

5. Congress Working Committee's moved to restore order by ordering the arrest of most of the opposition participating in the unrest.

6. Congress Working Committee promoted the White Revolution—a national campaign to increase the production and supply of milk by creating the National Dairy Development Board.

7. Congress Working Committee is a secular party whose social democratic platform is generally considered to be on the centre-left of Indian politics.

8. Congress Working Committee has the authority to do virtually anything during the course of consideration of a measure, including deeming it passed.

9. Congress Working Committee asserted its independence from the executive branch by enhancing its oversight powers.

10. Congress Working Committee officially made the Ways and Means Committee a standing committee in 1802.

11. Congress Working Committee sent the states the nation's first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, in 1777.

12. Congress Working Committee seats are generally distributed to members of different political parties in a ratio equivalent to party membership in the larger House or Senate.

13. Congress Working Committee has wide discretion to determine the subject matter it studies as well as the scope and extent of its inquiry.

14. Congress Working Committee is empowered to create and use administrative agencies and boards, such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the national mediation board,to determine facts and to enforce its legislative policies and enactments.

15. Congress Working Committee has grown steadily in size as the nation has gained population and added states.

16. Congress Working Committee is not required to vote on a vetoed bill, and such bills are often simply referred to committee and tabled.

17. Congress Working Committee divides its legislative, oversight, and internal administrative tasks among approximately 200 committees and subcommittees.

18. Congress Working Committee is the executive committee of the Indian National Congress.