New Delhi: Winter session of
Parliament will start from November 24 and conclude on December 23 during which
a heavy legislative agenda is on the cards. The Cabinet Committee on
Parliamentary Affairs headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday
recommended the dates to the President.
The month-long session will have a total of 22
sittings in which four days have been earmarked for Private Members' business.
A total of 67 bills 59 in Rajya Sabha and eight in Lok Sabha are pending and
the government will push for passage of "at least 30 to 35"
legislations, a senior minister said.
This will be the second major session since the Narendra Modi Government took
over in May.
The long wait for finalisation of seating arrangement in Lok Sabha is expected
to be over before the session commences, almost six months after the
constitution of the new House.
"We expect the arrangement to be in place before the winter session,"
said an official at Parliament over the exercise which has dragged on after the
declaration of the results of the 16th Lok Sabha polls on May 16.
Average number of sittings in the past five Winter sessions has been 22 and the
dates were decided based on precedents, source said.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Law
Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Anant Kumar
and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu are members of the
Committee.
HRD Minister Smriti Irani and Ministers of state for Parliamentary Affairs
Prakash Javadekar and Santosh Gangwar are special invitees to the Committee.
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