The second part of the Budget session of the Parliament will resume on Monday and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill will be presented in Lok Sabha on the same day. The Bill seeks further to amend the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950 for inclusion of certain communities in the list of Scheduled Tribes in relation to the State of Tripura. Further, Nirmala Sitharaman will present a statement of estimated receipts and expenditures of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the year 2022-23. Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will present the twenty-ninth report of the Business Advisory Committee on Monday.
The two Houses of Parliament will continue to follow social distancing norms in the seating arrangements of the members by utilizing both the chambers and visitors’ galleries.
As per the seating arrangement, Rajya Sabha, having a total strength presently of 237 members with eight vacancies out of a total of 245 MPs, it will have 139 (+3) MPs sitting in the chamber while 98 others will be accommodated in the gallery at a given time.
Similarly, Lok Sabha has a total accommodation of 538 members, out of which 282, including the Prime Minister, can sit in the chamber while the rest 258 can sit in the galleries at a given time.
Rajya Sabha will get additional 19 hours of business time in the second part of the Budget session of Parliament, resuming from Monday. The House will sit from 11 am till 6 pm during the scheduled 19 sittings. The House will have four days for Private Member’s Business and Question Hour will continue to be for one hour while the Zero Hour which was curtailed to half an hour during the first part will now be for a full one hour per each sitting.
The second half of the Budget session will conclude on April 8. The first half of the Budget session began on January 31 and concluded on February 11.