Parliament Budget Session: Both the houses to resume at 11 am today

The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, the two houses of parliament, will reconvene on Thursday at 11 a.m. to begin discussing the legislative items on their daily agendas. The Union Interim Budget 2024–25 and the Interim Budget of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will be the topics of today’s Rajya Sabha debate, which followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ninety-minute response to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address. Union Minister Bupender Yadav will move a motion to elect someone to the Central Advisory Committee today in accordance with the Upper House’s daily schedule of business.

He will move a motion that “in pursuance of Section 3(2)b of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 read with Rule 11(2) of the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Central Rules, 1998, the House do proceed to elect, in such manner as directed by Chairman, one Member from among the members of the House, to be a member of the Central Advisory Committee for a period of three years, subject to other provisions of the said Act and Rules made thereunder.”
Rajya Sabha MPs Ram Chander Jangra and Dr K Laxman will lay on the table, a copy of the Twenty-First Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs on ‘Smart Cities Mission: An Evaluation’.

Representatives Ajay Pratap Singh and Ranjeet Ranjan will place a copy of the Thirty-Seventh Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, which is related to the Department of Rural Development, on the table. The report is titled “Rural Employment through Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) – An insight into wage rates and other matters relating thereto” and details the department’s work.

Meanwhile, in Lok Sabha, MPs Ravneet Singh and Bhavana Gawali (Patil) will lay on the table the minutes of the Thirteenth sitting of the Committee on Absence of Members from the sittings of the House held on February 6.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Lower House passed the Finance Bill, 2024, marking the end of the Interim Budget exercise in the House. Union Finance Minister presented the Interim Budget on February 1, the second day of the ongoing Budget Session.