Govt To Introduce Six New Bills In Monsoon Session Of Parliament

List of Six Bills

1. Finance Bill
2. Disaster Management Bill
   • The disaster management bill, once enacted, is expected to bring more clarity and convergence in the roles of different organisations working in the sector.
3. Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak Bill
   • Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024 is one of the bills aimed at facilitating a legal way of replacing the British era Aircraft Act of 1934 to ensure provisions for ease of doing business in India’s civil aviation sector.
4. Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill
   • The coffee promotion bill has been prepared to give wider promotion and developmental avenues to the Indian Coffee industry.
5. Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill
6. Boilers Bill

Business Advisory Committee

Meanwhile, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla also constituted the Business Advisory Committee (BAC), which decides the parliamentary agenda. 

About Business Advisory Committee

• The BAC is a parliamentary committee established under Rule 287 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha. 
• This committee regulates the programme and time table of the House. It allocates time for the transaction of legislative and other business brought before the House by the government. 
• Members: The Lok Sabha committee consists of 15 members including the Speaker as its chairman. 
  • The committee consists of 15 members, including:
    • The Speaker of Lok Sabha (Chairperson)
    • The Deputy Speaker
    • A minister nominated by the Prime Minister
    • Leaders of recognized parties and groups in Lok Sabha
    • Other members nominated by the Speaker
  • In the Rajya Sabha, it has 11 members including the Chairman as its ex- officio chairman.

Summoning

• The President of India formally summons MPs to convene for a session. The President is bound by the decision of the government.
• The President addresses both the houses during the first session of the year and also the first session after a general election.
• There is no minimum number of days that the Parliament is required to meet in a year.

Adjournment

• Adjournment refers to suspending proceedings for the day. The sitting will be suspended with the intention of resuming on the next working day or a specified later date.
  • Sitting: A sitting is the daily meeting of the house. A sitting usually ends following an adjournment.

Adjournment Sine Die

• The term “adjournment sine die” refers to suspending a session of Parliament for an indeterminate amount of time.

Dissolution

• It means that the President of India will dissolve the Lok Sabha on the advice of the Prime Minister.

Prorogation

• A prorogation refers to the termination of a session of the House by an Order by the President.
• Prorogation signals the end of the sitting as well as the session and not the dissolution.

Joint Session

• Article 108 of the constitution provides for a joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, in order to break any deadlock.
• The President of India calls for a joint session. 
• Presided by: The speaker of the Lok Sabha presides over the joint session. In case he/she is unavailable, the deputy speaker of Lok Sabha will preside.
  • If both are not available, the deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha will preside over the joint sitting. 
  • If none of the above are available, any other member of the Parliament can preside by consensus of both the Houses.
• A joint session can be conducted only in cases of deadlock while passing general bills and not constitutional amendment bills or money bills.

Special Session

• A special session is convened for specific occasions when MPs meet to conduct the House business outside of their usual legislative sessions.
• The President of India will summon special session as per provisions of Article 85(1) of the Constitution.

Lame Duck Session

• The lame-duck session is the final session of the old Lok Sabha after a new Lok Sabha is elected.