Being a Friday, Parliament will take up Bills introduced by private Members for discussion and passing. On Thursday, the Lok Sabha passed The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018, after a heated debate.
Here are the live updates:
House is in Session. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan is in the Chair. Question Hour begins. BJP MP Kirti Jha Azad asks a question on Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana. Minister J.P. Nadda says RSBY has been subsumed by the Ayushman Bharat scheme.
Slogans can be heard.
The next question is on hostels for children. Anandrao Adsul of the Shiv Sena asks what the government is doing to ensure the safety and well-being of children in school hostels. Minister Maneka Gandhi says that at the moment, hostels are treated as child care institutions. The government, she says, has got all institutions to register, and those that have proved to be bad have been shut down, mostly in Maharashtra. “We need feet on the ground. I have written again and again to every Member of Parliament. They should be going to the institutions in their constituencies and do spot checks.” She says that in Muzaffarpur, they warned the State six months ago that something is not right in this institution.
But slogans get louder and House is adjourned till noon.
House is in Session. Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu is in the Chair. Papers are laid on the table. Committee reports are tabled now.
Ravi Shankar Prasad makes his statement, followed by Manoj Sinha. The House passes a resolution to increase the basic customs duty on certain goods.
The House also wishes Arun Jaitley and A.K. Antony on their birthdays. Once Zero Hour begins, though, the decibel level increases, as Chair rejects two notices from Members. As the noise level goes up, House is adjourned till Monday.
In government business today in the Rajya Sabha, Ravi Shankar Prasad will make a statement regarding Status of implementation of recommendations contained in the 46th Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology.
Manoj Sinha will make two statements — on the statuses of implementation of recommendations/observations contained in the 47th and 48th Reports of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology on Demands for Grants.
Today, the Lok Sabha will take up discussion and voting on the second batch of The Supplementary Demands for Grants 2018-19.
Mahesh Sharma, the Minister of State for Culture and Tourism, will introduce The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2018. J.P. Nadda will move that The Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018 be passed, and Arun Jaitley hopes to have The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2018 passed. Mr. Nadda will also to move to pass The National Medical Commission Bill, 2017, and Ravi Shankar Prasad will want the The New Delhi International Arbitration Centre Bill, 2018 passed.