Dharmendra Pradhan will introduce the Central Universities Amendment Bill in RS today

Many things are expected to happen in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on the 10th day of the winter session of Parliament as Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal today sent the Repeal and Amendment Bill 2023 to the House for consideration and approval Rajya Sabha will submit.

The bill aims to repeal certain laws and amend a law. The bill was earlier passed by the Lok Sabha.

Another Union minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, will move the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2023, to the Rajya Sabha for consideration and approval today. The bill seeks to amend the Central Universities Act, 2009. The bill was earlier passed by Lok Sabha.

Union Minister Smriti Zubin Irani will make a statement in the Rajya Sabha today on the status of implementation of recommendations and observations contained in the 350th report of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports on Demands for Subsidies (2023 -24) in relation to the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

In addition, Rajya Sabha MPs Vivek Thakur, Sangeeta Yadav and Faitaz Ahmad will present three reports (in English and Hindi) of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports.

These reports are: 357th Report on “Action taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in the 351st Report on the Demand for Grants 2023-24 of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports”, 358th Report on “Research-based Education and Anusandhan Scenario in Sciences and Allied Fields” and 359th Report on “Action taken by the Government in response to the recommendations/observations contained in the 350th Report on the Applications for Grants 2023-2024 of the Ministry of Women and Child Development”.

MPs Dr Ashok Bajpai and Rajmani Patel will submit a copy of the 35th report of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (2023-2024) on the action taken by the government based on the observations contained therein and recommendations. in his Thirty-first Report on “Production and Distribution of Coarse Grains”.

Meanwhile, General VK Singh (Retd), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Sadhvi Niranjana Jyoti, Ministry of Rural Development; Nityanand Rai, Ministry of Home Affairs; Annpurna Devi, Ministry of Education; BL Verma, Ministry of Cooperation; Ajay Kumar, Ministry of Home Affairs; Pratima Bhoumik, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and 8 Dr. Subhas Sarkar from the Ministry of Education are also on the programme.

The 2023 Winter Session of Parliament began on December 4 and will continue until December 22 and will have 15 sessions spread over 19 days.