LS speaker constitutes BAC; 6 Bills listed by govt for Parliament’s new session
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Image source: LSTV Screengrab
New Delhi: The Monsoon Session of Parliament, which starts next week, will see the introduction of six new Bills, one of which will change the disaster management law.
To facilitate business operations in the civil aviation industry, the government has proposed the Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024 to replace the Aircraft Act of 1934, in addition to the Finance Bill.
The list of bills was published in the Parliament bulletin issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat on Thursday evening.
The Monsoon Session begins on July 22 and will continue till August 12.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Union Budget on Tuesday, 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.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla also constituted the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) that decides the parliamentary agenda.
The committee chaired by the Speaker 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.
With PTI inputs