The "concerned" department in this case, as implied by Jairam Ramesh, is Finance, which has Bhartruhari Mahtab as its Chairperson. Interestingly, Mahtab represents Odisha's Cuttack Lok Sabha Constituency for the BJP. He has been winning this Lok Sabha seat successively since 1999, earlier as a Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate. Between 2009 and 2014, under former PM late Manmohan Singh, 71 per cent of Bills were referred to Parliamentary Standing Committees." The Bill, introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday, provides for a legal framework for Kolkata's Indian Statistical Institute.