Finance Bill, Railways Appropriation Bill, Uttarakhand Ordinances, GST Bill, Factories Bill, Afforestation Fund Bill, Enemy Property Bill on the agenda
Finance Bill, Railways Appropriation Bill, Uttarakhand Ordinances, GST Bill, Factories Bill,
Afforestation Fund Bill, Enemy Property Bill on the agenda
Afforestation Fund Bill, Enemy Property Bill on the agenda
Parliament
session will begin from Monday i.e April 25,2016 to address the financial
business related to the General and Railway Budgets for the financial year 2016-17
and is scheduled to last till May 13,2016 subject to the exigencies of the
Government’s Business. The ensuing session of the Lower House will be the 8th
Session of the 16th and that of the Upper House the 239th
Session of Rajya Sabha since the previous sessions of the Parliament were
prorogued in March this year, after both the Houses were adjourned on March 16
for meetings of Department Related Standing Committtees.
Financial
business including discussion on demands for grants of various ministries in
Lok Sabha and working of some ministries in Rajya Sabha, consideration and
passing of the Railways Appropriation Bill,2016 and Finance Bill,2016
constitutes the main agenda of this session of Parliament.
Lok
Sabha will take up discussion on Demands for Grants of the Ministry of Railways
and the related Appropriation Bill for 2016-17 on April 26. This will be
followed by discussion on Demands for Grants of the Ministries of Development
of North-Eastern Region, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship, Social Justice and Empowerment and Civil
Aviation.
Rajya
Sabha will discuss working of the Ministries of Health & Family Welfare,
Human Resource Development, Finance, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and
External Affairs. Thereafter, Finance Bill,2016 and application of Guillotine
will be taken up.
Other
Legislative agenda likely to be taken up in Lok Sabha include:
1.Consideration
and Passing of the Sikh Gurudwaras (Amendment) Bill, 2016 as passed by Rajya
Sabha (listed for April 25);
2.Consideration
and Passing of the Regional Centre for Bio-technology Bill,2016 (listed for
April 25);
3.The
Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014 (Standing Committee submitted its Report);
4.The
Electricity Amendment Bill, 2014 (Standing Committee submitted its Report);
5.The
Lok Pal and Lok Ayuktas and other related laws (Amendment) Bill,2014 (Standing
Committee submitted its report);
6.The
Merchant Shipping Bill, 2015 (Standing Committee submitted its Report);
7.The
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill,2015 (Standing
Committee submitted its Report);
8.The
Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2015 (Standing Committee submitted its
Report);
9.The
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code,2015 (Report of Joint Committee awaited);
10.The
Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 2015 (Report of Standing
Committee awaited);
11.The
Consumer Protection Bill, 2015 (Report of the Standing Committee awaited);
12.The
Companies (Amendment) Bill,2016 (Report of the Standing Committee awaited); and
13.
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition,
Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Second Bill, 2015 (Report of Joint
Committee awaited).
Legislative
business likely to be taken up in Rajya Sabha include;
1.The
Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (Amendment) Bill,2016 as passed by Lok
Sabha;
2.The
Appropriation Acts (Repeal) Bill,2016 as passed by Lok Sabha;
3.The
Repealing and Amending (Third) Bill,2016 as passed by Lok Sabha;
4.The
Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill,2016 as passed
by Lok Sabha;
(The
above four Bills listed for April 25)
5.The
Constitution (One twenty second) Amendment Bill relating to introduction of GSG
as passed by Lok Sabha and reported by the Select Committee of Rajya Sabha;
6.The
Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill,2016 as passed by Lok Sabha and
referred to Select Committee of the House;
7.The
Whistle Blowers Protection (Amendment) Bill,2015 as passed by Lok Sabha;
8.The
Indian Trusts (Amendment) Bill,2015 as passed by Lok Sabha;
9.The
Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill,2015 as passed by Lok
Sabha;
10.The
Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 1987 as reported by Joint Committee;
and
11.
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition,
Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015 as passed by Lok Sabha
and referred to Joint Committee.
During
the 15 sittings of the session starting on April 25,2016, besides ratification
of Presidential Proclamation in Uttarkhand under Article 356 of the
Constitution, two Ordinances viz., The Uttarakhand Appropriation (Vote on
Account) Ordinance,2016 and The Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation)
Second Ordinance, 2016 are also on the agenda.
During
the last session of Parliament between February 23 and March 16,2016, both the
Houses had 16 sittings during when 11 Bills were introduced in Lok Sabha and
one in Rajya Sabha. The Lower House passed 9 Bills while the Upper House
cleared 11 Bills. Ten Bills were passed by both the Houses including the Real
Estate (Development and Regulation) Bill,2016 and the Election Laws (Amendment)
Bill,2016.
Both
Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha took up short duration discussion on the incidents in
Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad Central University during the last
session. Lok Sabha held similar discussion on money laundering including Aircel
and Maxis and the terrorist attack in Pathankot while Rajya Sabha discussed
agrarian crisis prevailing at that time.
Lok
Sabha discussed Calling Attention Motion on affidavit relating to Ishrat Jehan
case while in Rajay Sabha , inflammatory speech by a union minister was
discussed under the same provision.
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