Parliamentary panel reshuffle: Full list

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have reconstituted their department-related parliamentary standing committees for the year, keeping most sitting chairpersons in place while handing a few panels to new names.Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has been reappointed chairperson of the standing committee on external affairs, according to PTI. Former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi retains charge of the panel on agriculture.Here is the full list: Full list of panel chairsExternal affairs: Shashi Tharoor (Congress), reappointedAgriculture: Charanjit Singh Channi (Congress), retainedTransport: Sanjay Kumar Jha, reappointedCoal, mines and steel: Anurag Thakur (BJP), retainedHealth and family welfare: Ram Gopal Yadav (Samajwadi Party), retainedIndustry: Tiruchi Siva (DMK), named chairpersonPersonnel, public grievances, law and justice: Sujeet Kumar (BJP), named chairpersonEducation, women, children and youth: Mukul Wasnik (Congress), retainedCommerce: Sudhanshu Trivedi (BJP), appointed in place of TMC's Dola SenEnergy: Shrirang Barne (Shiv Sena), reappointedScience and technology, environment, forests and climate change: Medha Vishram Kulkarni (BJP), retainedCommunications and information technology: Nishikant Dubey (BJP), reappointedHome affairs: Radha Mohan Das Agarwal (BJP), reappointedDepartment-related standing committees examine ministries' budgets, bills and policies through the year and can summon officials and experts for scrutiny. Most panels are reconstituted annually, and this round keeps the broad party balance from the previous term largely unchanged, with commerce and the personnel, law and justice panel the two clear changes of guard.