Delhi Assembly re-introduced two Bills in the Assembly which were sent back by the Centre with some objections earlier. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told the House on Wednesday that the two Bills — The Delhi Netaji Subhas University of Technology Bill (A) and the Minimum Wages (Delhi) Amendment Bill — were re-introduced after necessary changes were made as directed the Centre.
“This Bill was returned to us for to make some amendments which we have carried and now we are re-introducing the Bill,” said Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said in the House.
The decision of re-introducing the Bill was taken by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at a Cabinet meeting on Saturday. “The Cabinet has approved the three Bills which will be re-introduced in the upcoming Assembly session,” said a senior Government official.
The Minimum Wages (Delhi) Amendment Bill, 2015, The Delhi (Right of Citizen to Time Bound Delivery of Services) Amendment Bill, 2015 and NSIT Bill (amendment) were among the 14 Bills passed by the House. The Centre had sent back most of the proposed legislations with some objections after which Kejriwal had directed the law department to submit a “way forward” road map on legislative bills awaiting clearance in July.
In January, then President Pranab Mukherjee had returned Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology Bill (NSIT), seeking university status for the institute, to Delhi Assembly asking the House to reconsider and amend the Bill.
Meanwhile, in a related development, the AAP Government informed the Assembly that it plans to carry out development works in around 1,700 unauthorised colonies through irrigation and food control department.
Replying to a question in the Delhi Assembly on Wednesday, Urban development Minister Satyender Jain said that at present Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) only carries out civic projects in unauthorised colonies across the city.
“Government has made a plan to allow irrigation and flood control department to look after the development works in around 1,700 unauthorised colonies along with DSIIDC,” Jain told the House during the Question Hour.
The decision came after some MlAs complained that there has been a delay in executing development works in unauthorised colonies falling under their constituencies. The Minister also said that due to delay in regularisation of unauthorised colonies by the Centre, developmental works have been affected.
Jain also asked BJP MlA Jagdish Pradhan, who said that around 99 per cent of colonies are unauthorised in his constituency, to take up the issue of regularisation of all colonies in Delhi with the Centre where the BJP is in power.