The Wednesday list of business in Lok Sabha includes several Bills for consideration and passing. Union Home minister Amit Shah will move the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019 to amend the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004. The Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha on August 5, and was laid on the table of Lok Sabha on the same day.

The motion for consideration of the Bill was moved by the minister-in-charge in Lok Sabha on August 6. After discussion on the motion concluded, the Minister proposed that Rajya Sabha will be requested to permit withdrawal of the Bill to which the House agreed. Rajya Sabha at its sitting held on August 7, 2019 agreed to the request made by the minister-in-charge that leave be granted by Rajya Sabha to withdraw the Bill in Lok Sabha.

Amit Shah will also move the Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019 for consideration and passing. The Bill seeks amendment to the Special Protection Group Act 1988. The Bill was introduced by Union minister of state for Home G. Kishan Reddy on Monday.

Another Bill to be moved by Amit Shah is the Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories), Bill, 2019 for consideration and passing. It was introduced on Tuesday by Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy.

This Bill will see the merging of two Union Territories — Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

Union minister Harsh Vardhan to reply on the debate started on Tuesday on Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Ordinance, 2019 Bill. An ordinance on it was promulgated by the President on September 18, 2019.

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri to move the National Capital Territory of Delhi (Recognition of Public Rights of Residents in Unauthorised Colonies) Bill, 2019 for consideration and passing. It was introduced by the Minister on Tuesday.

The Taxation Laws (Amendment), Bill 2019 will be moved by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman for consideration and passing. The Bill seeks to amend the Income Tax Act 1961 and to amend the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2019.

In Rajya Sabha today, the list of business includes an obituary reference to the passing away of ex-member and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kailash Joshi.

Several ministers will lay papers on the table, entered in the separate list, including Home Minister Amit Shah for Ministry of Home Affairs, Dharmendra Pradhan for Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Santosh Gangwar for Ministry of Labour and Employment, Faggan Singh Kulaste for Ministry of Steel, and others.

Sampatiya Uike will present reports of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare:

(i) 115th Report on the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Bill, 2019

(ii) 116th Report on the National Commission for Homoeopathy Bill, 2019.

Anand Sharma, Partap Singh Bajwa, Derek O'Brien, Sanjay Raut, Ram Gopal Yadav, Vaiko, Kapil Sibal, Digvijaya Singh and others will raise a discussion on the economic situation in the country.

Further consideration of the following motion moved by Anurag Thakur on the November 26: -- "That the Bill further to amend the Chit Funds Act, 1982, as passed by Lok Sabha, be taken into consideration."

First Published:Nov 27, 2019 8:43 AM IST