Personally I am looking forward to the work of the Estimates Committee when it is set up because I think in two directions it is going to exert a healthy influence upon the course of public expenditure.

In the first place, the suggestions and criticisms which may be made by the Estimates Committee would, in my judgement, give a useful direction and guidance to the Government in the matter of regulating expenditure.

They are as follows: Drought situation in the country pertaining to the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Education with special reference to the recent development regarding autonomy in Education By the press release circulated on 17 May 2018, the committee released the subjects that it has selected for examination during the year 2018-19[6] The committee noted in its May 2016 report that the river Ganga has been declared one of the ten most polluted rivers of the world.

[8] As of December 2017, this toxic debt problem worsened as it touched ₹899,000 crore (equivalent to ₹12 trillion or US$140 billion in 2023) with public sector banks(PSBs) accounting for over 86% of the pie roughly ₹777,000 crore (equivalent to ₹10 trillion or US$120 billion in 2023)[9][10] In September 2018, the Joshi led committee sent notices to the coal and power ministries asking for explanations on mounting NPAs in the sectors.

[11] The committee noted in its report titled "Measuring growth, employment and income" that there are several parameters that need to be factored into the calculation of the GDP, like indicators to gauge the environmental resource decay and replenishment efforts made to compensate the loss concluding that - " The committee strongly recommends the government to have mechanisms by coming up with new measures of GDP estimation and statistical measurement of other socio-economic factors "[12][13] (Alliance) As part of its oversight process the committee has published quite a number of reports over the course of its existence.