Central government set to table 6 new bills during Budget session
The Central government will introduce six new bills, including the one to amend the disaster management law, in the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning next week.
Besides the Finance Bill, the government has listed the Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024 to replace the Aircraft Act of 1934 to provide enabling provisions for ease of doing business in the civil aviation sector.
The list of bills was published in the Parliament bulletin issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat on Thursday evening. The Monsoon Session of Parliament will begin on July 22 and will continue till August 12. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget on July 23. Other bills listed for introduction and passage during the session are The Boilers Bill to replace the pre-independence era law, the Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill, and the Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill.
Meanwhile, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has constituted the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) which decides the parliamentary agenda.
The committee, which is effective from July 18, will be chaired by Birla himself. The committee has Sudip Bandyopadhyay (TMC), P P Chaudhary (BJP), Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu (TDP), Nishikant Dubey (BJP), Gaurav Gogoi (Congress), Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP), Dileshwar Kamait (JD-U), Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJP), Dayanidhi Maran (DMK), Baijayant Panda (BJP), Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena-UBT), Kodikunnil Suresh (Congress), Anurag Thakur (BJP) and Lalji Verma (SP) as members.