Relevance in a democratic polity:

♤ Parliament as a whole can’t go into details of each bill or grant due to its huge size and paucity of time. This is facilitated by DRSCs. They perform legislative role consisting of parliamentarians. Hence, called mini-parliaments.

♤ Imparts legitimacy to Indian democracy as the functionaries of committee are elected representatives.

♤ Effective in obtaining public feedback and building political consensus on contentious issues.

♤ Has important functions like -Consideration of Demands for Grants; Examination of Bills referred to by the Chairman, Rajya Sabha or the Speaker, Lok Sabha; Consideration of Annual Reports; Consideration of national basic long term policy documents presented to the House and referred to it.