2. What are the features of Cabinet Committees

The features of Cabinet Committees are:

1. They are extra-constitutional in emergence, though provided for in the Rules of Business.
2. They are of two types: standing (permanent) and ad hoc (temporary).
3. They are set up by the Prime Minister, with varying number, nomenclature, and composition.
4. Their membership varies, usually including Cabinet Ministers, but sometimes non-cabinet ministers as members or special invitees.
5. They include Ministers in charge of subjects and other senior Ministers.
6. They are mostly headed by the Prime Minister, or other senior Cabinet Ministers, but the Prime Minister invariably presides if a member.
7. They sort out issues, formulate proposals, and take decisions, which the Cabinet can review.
8. They are an organizational device to reduce Cabinet workload, facilitate in-depth examination, and ensure effective coordination, based on division of labor and delegation.