Parliament to debate price rise
New Delhi, Jul 31, 2022, By Special Correspondent
New Delhi, Jul 31: The last few sittings of the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament might see transaction of some business after the debate on price rise is taken up in both the Houses.
Barely 10 working days are remaining before the Monsoon Session gets over on August 12.
With the government bowing to pressure from the opposition for a discussion on price rise, the matter has been listed in the Lok Sabha for Monday and in the Rajya Sabha the next day.
An emboldened opposition might demand a discussion on the Agnipath defence recruitment scheme in Parliament next week.
The government has listed two bills -- The Central Universities(Amendment) Bill, 2022 to be introduced and the The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021 to be passed in the Lok Sabha.
In the Rajya Sabha too, two Bills will come up for consideration and passing on Monday -- the Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005; and a Bill to provide for the national measures for protecting the Antarctic environment and dependent and associated ecosystems and to give effect to the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. These have been passed by the Lok Sabha.