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(vi) The Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
considers all matters relating to the Welfare of the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes and keeps a watch whether the constitutional safeguards
in respect of these classes are properly implemented.

Ad hoc Committees : Ad hoc Committees may be broadly classified under
two headings : Committees which are constituted from time to time either by
Lok Sabha on a motion adopted in diat behalf, or by the Speaker, to enquire into
and report on specific subjects (e.g. Committee on the Conduct of Certain
Members during the President's Address, Committees on Draft Five Year Plans).
Under the second category of ad hoc Committees fall the Select or Joint
Committees on Bills which are appointed to consider and report on particular
Bills. These committees are distinguishable from the other ad hoc Committees
inasmuch as they are concerned with Bills and the procedure to be followed by
them is laid down in the Rules of Procedure and the Directions by the Speaker.
THE SECRETARIAT
Each House of Parliament has a Secretariat of its own headed by a Secretary-
General, who is a permanent official working under the over-all control of the
Presiding Officer of the House.
The main function of the Secretary-General is to advise the Presiding Officer,
in the exercise by him of all the powers and functions that belong to his office.
He also acts as the administrative head of the Secretariat of the House.
The work of the two Secretariats is organised on a functional basis with the
staff grouped into the following Services :—
1. The Legislative Service;
2. The Financial Committee Service—This Service does not exist in the
Rajya Sabha;
3. Executive & Administrative Service;
4. The Library, Reference, Research, Documentation and Information
i Service—serving both the Houses;
5. The Verbatim Reporting, Personal Secretaries and Stenographic
Service;
6. The Simultaneous Interpretation Service;
7. The Printing, Publications, Stationery, Sales, Stores, Distribution and
Archives Service;
8. The Editorial and Translation Service;
9. Watch & Ward, Door-Keeping and Sanitation Service;
10. Clerks, Typists, Record Sorters and Daftries Service; and
11. The Messenger Service.

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