The second part of the Budget Session of the Parliament is set to begin today with the opposition set to corner the government over a range of issues like rising unemployment, a reduction in the interest rate on employees’ provident fund and the evacuation of Indians stranded in war-hit Ukraine.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present the budget for Jammu and Kashmir in the Lok Sabha on Monday and it is expected to be taken up for discussion in the post-lunch sitting of the House. The government has also listed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill for consideration and passing in the Lok Sabha.
Centre seeks Parliament nod for additional gross expenditure of Rs 1.58 lakh crore
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir. She also presented supplementary demands for grants, demands for grants and demands for excess grants for Jammu and Kashmir, in Lok Sabha.
Lok Sabha to resume at 2 pm
Congress MP KC Venugopal gives Suspension of Business notice under Rule 267 in Rajya Sabha, to discuss Russia-Ukraine conflict and its impact, including the education of Indian students returned for the war zone.
Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi gives Zero Hour Submission in Rajya Sabha to discuss the depreciating value of the Indian Rupee.
The Centre will table the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha tomorrow. The bill will be moved by Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda to seek amendments to the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950. The Centre has sought for the inclusion of certain communities in the list of Scheduled Tribes in relation to the State of Tripura.
The first part of the Budget session had begun on January 29 with President Ram Nath Kovind’s address to a joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in the Central Hall of Parliament, which was followed by the presentation of the Economic Survey. Sitharaman presented the Union Budget on February 1, which was followed by discussions on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address and the Union Budget.
