As the Parliament reconvenes for the ongoing Winter Session, the Upper House has more business scheduled for Tuesday. This comes after the Rajya Sabha passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill 2023, in response to the Supreme Court’s upholding of the revocation of Article 370 from the extant state.
Both Houses are scheduled to take up important businesses on the ninth day of the Winter Session, as Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal is to move the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Bill, 2023, in the Rajya Sabha for consideration and passage to regulate the appointment, conditions of service and term of office of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners, and the procedure for transaction of business by the Election Commission.
Meghwal will also introduce the Repealing and Amending Bill, 2023, for consideration and passage in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday in order to amend and repeal a few laws. The Lok Sabha had already approved the bill. In addition, the Two Hundred and Fifty-Second Report (in Hindi and English) of the Committee on Subordinate Legislation on the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017 is scheduled to be presented in the House by Rajya Sabha Members Laxmikant Bajpayee, Vivek Tankha, and Jayant Chaudhary.
Fellow Upper House members Satish Chandra Dubey and Fauzia Khan are to lay on the table a copy (in English and Hindi) of the Thirty-Fourth Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (2023-2024) on Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in the Twenty Eighth Report of the Committee on “Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)” pertaining to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Food and Public Distribution).
