The Centre has listed its key legislations like Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Real Estate Bills for next week for consideration and passage in Parliament. The Government has plans to pass six Bills in the lok Sabha and seven in the Rajya Sabha next week.
Of these, two Bills are already listed in the lower House and three in the Upper House and the Government’s main focus will be on the passage of the key GST Bill, officially known as The Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill, 2014. The Centre plans to roll out GST from April next year.
The Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of the Rajya Sabha has allotted a time of four hours for the GST Bill and two hours for the Real Estate Bill.
However, the BSP and the Congress, which have been disrupting the Rajya Sabha for the last two days, have vowed to persist with demands for Union Minister VK Singh’s ouster from the Council of Ministers as well as Parliament for his ‘dog’ analogy after two Dalit children were burnt alive in Haryana a few months ago.
Congress’ Rajya Sabha member Pramod Tiwari said his party’s stand on the issue remains the same and it will protest in the House even on Monday if Singh comes there.
Other important Bills include the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2013, which was discussed in the Rajya Sabha on Friday but could not further due to disruption over VK Singh issue.
The legislative agenda of the lok Sabha includes consideration and passage of the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salary and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill 2015, the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2015, The Indian Trusts (Amendment) Bill 2015, the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill 2015, and the Industries (Regulation and Development) Amendment Bill 2015.
The Government has also planned to take up the discussion and voting on Supplementary Demands for Grants (General) for 2015-16 and Demands for Excess Grants (General) for 2012-13 in the lok Sabha in the third week of the Winter Session, sources in the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry said.
The Upper House is also slated to take up the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2015, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2015, the Appropriation Acts (Repeal) Bill, 2015, the Repealing and Amending (Third) Bill, 2015, as passed by the lok Sabha, the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013, and the Child labour (Protection and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012.
The non-legislative business, which could be taken up in the lok Sabha next week include a discussion on drought situation in the country, price rise and India’s relations with neighbouring countries. In the Rajya Sabha, the situation in Nepal and India-Nepal relations and price rise could be discussed. The discussion on Nepal situation has been converted from Calling Attention of the Government to a short duration discussion as per the decision of the House on Friday.