Dear Comrades,
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.