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NEW DELHI: With opposition benches in the Rajya Sabha empty — their occupants walked out on Tuesday saying they would boycott proceedings until the suspension of eight MPs was revoked — the House passed seven bills, including one for return to the Lok Sabha, in a record time of three and a half hours.
Among the bills passed by voice vote, with the discussion and the minister’s reply on each bill getting completed in a matter of a few minutes, was the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Laws (Amendment) Bill.
Bill seeking to make taxation transparent returned to LS
While the first six bills were passed by Lok Sabha earlier and will become Acts upon presidential assent, the last bill — seeking to provide various relief in terms of compliance requirements for taxpayers amid the coronavirus pandemic and also to make the taxation process more transparent — was returned to Lok Sabha.
Apart from MPs from the ruling side, the only parties represented in the House at time of passage of the bills were BJD, TDP, YSR Congress and AIADMK. Though the chair repeatedly called out the names of opposition MPs as per the list of speakers given, none were present, leaving it to the handful of non-BJP MPs to debate the bills. Two resolutions listed in the names of CPI MP Binoy Viswam and Congress’s K C Venugopal and Digvijaya Singh — disapproving the Banking Regulation Ordinance and the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation of Central Provisions) Ordinance — could not be moved due to their absence.
The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act seeks to bring cooperative banks under the supervision of the RBI. The Companies (Amendment) Bill seeks to amend 48 sections to decriminalise various offences and 13 sections to ensure ‘ease of living’. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill seeks to ease the excessive regulatory regime and provide for imposition of stockholding limit on commodities only during calamities and famine.
Two bills — the Rashtriya Raksha University Bill that seeks to upgrade the Raksha Shakti University in Gandhinagar as an institution of national importance; and the National Forensic Sciences University Bill that seeks to upgrade the Gujarat Forensic Sciences University were also passed.
Among the bills passed by voice vote, with the discussion and the minister’s reply on each bill getting completed in a matter of a few minutes, was the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Laws (Amendment) Bill.
Bill seeking to make taxation transparent returned to LS
While the first six bills were passed by Lok Sabha earlier and will become Acts upon presidential assent, the last bill — seeking to provide various relief in terms of compliance requirements for taxpayers amid the coronavirus pandemic and also to make the taxation process more transparent — was returned to Lok Sabha.
Apart from MPs from the ruling side, the only parties represented in the House at time of passage of the bills were BJD, TDP, YSR Congress and AIADMK. Though the chair repeatedly called out the names of opposition MPs as per the list of speakers given, none were present, leaving it to the handful of non-BJP MPs to debate the bills. Two resolutions listed in the names of CPI MP Binoy Viswam and Congress’s K C Venugopal and Digvijaya Singh — disapproving the Banking Regulation Ordinance and the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation of Central Provisions) Ordinance — could not be moved due to their absence.
The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act seeks to bring cooperative banks under the supervision of the RBI. The Companies (Amendment) Bill seeks to amend 48 sections to decriminalise various offences and 13 sections to ensure ‘ease of living’. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill seeks to ease the excessive regulatory regime and provide for imposition of stockholding limit on commodities only during calamities and famine.
Two bills — the Rashtriya Raksha University Bill that seeks to upgrade the Raksha Shakti University in Gandhinagar as an institution of national importance; and the National Forensic Sciences University Bill that seeks to upgrade the Gujarat Forensic Sciences University were also passed.
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