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DRAFT : Standing Committee on External Affairs (India)
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs (SCOEA) is a department related standing committee (DRSC) constituted by the Parliament of India comprising selected members of parliament for the purpose of legislative oversight on the policies and decision making of the following four ministries:
 * 1) Ministry of Finance (MoF)
 * 2) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
 * 3) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
 * 4) NITI Aayog (succeeding the Planning Commission)

The committee consists of thirty-onemembers, twenty-one elected by Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament, and not more than tenmembers of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament. The members are elected every year from amongst its members of respective houses according to the principle of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. The chairperson is appointed by the Lok Sabha speaker. The term of office of the members is one year. A minister is not eligible to become a member of the committee. If a member after his election to the committee becomes a Minister, he ceases to be a member from the date of such appointment.