<p>The Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the 2G spectrum scam will be headed by Congress MP P C Chacko.<br /><br />With the appointment of the senior Congress leader from Kerala to head the 30-member panel, Parliament has set in motion the inquiry into what the opposition is alleging as the biggest scam in independent India.<br /><br />The announcement of the 65-year-old Chacko as chairman of the JPC was made by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Bansal who said Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has made the Thrissur MP chairman of the panel.<br /><br />The JPC, having 20-members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha, came into being a few days ago, ending three months of deadlock in Parliament between the government and the opposition, which latched on to a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General late last year which spoke of a presumed loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. The two Houses of Parliament have passed resolutions approving the setting up of the JPC.<br /><br />A Raja was forced to quit in November as telecom minister in the wake of the CAG report and is currently lodged in the Tihar jail after being questioned by the CBI. The government says that Raja was being prosecuted for the possibility of criminal culpability.<br /><br />The JPC will examine irregularities and aberrations, if any, in the implementation of government decisions and policy prescriptions on telecom licences and spectrum from 1998 to 2009.<br /><br /></p>
<p>The Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the 2G spectrum scam will be headed by Congress MP P C Chacko.<br /><br />With the appointment of the senior Congress leader from Kerala to head the 30-member panel, Parliament has set in motion the inquiry into what the opposition is alleging as the biggest scam in independent India.<br /><br />The announcement of the 65-year-old Chacko as chairman of the JPC was made by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Bansal who said Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has made the Thrissur MP chairman of the panel.<br /><br />The JPC, having 20-members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha, came into being a few days ago, ending three months of deadlock in Parliament between the government and the opposition, which latched on to a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General late last year which spoke of a presumed loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. The two Houses of Parliament have passed resolutions approving the setting up of the JPC.<br /><br />A Raja was forced to quit in November as telecom minister in the wake of the CAG report and is currently lodged in the Tihar jail after being questioned by the CBI. The government says that Raja was being prosecuted for the possibility of criminal culpability.<br /><br />The JPC will examine irregularities and aberrations, if any, in the implementation of government decisions and policy prescriptions on telecom licences and spectrum from 1998 to 2009.<br /><br /></p>