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Important Legislative News
Govt
hopeful of passing Budget by July 31: Chidambaram
Business
Standard, May 23
Cabinet
Minister P. Chidambaram and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that
they hoped the Budget for 2009-10 could be approved by Parliament by
July 31.
First session
of 15th Lok Sabha from June 1
Times of India, May 24
The
Union Cabinet decided to convene the Parliament session from June 1 to
June 9.
Clear
The Table
Financial Express, May 24
The
UPA government needs to prioritise certain crucial Bills in order to
achieve the goals of financial reforms, higher and inclusive growth and
better governance. The article discusses the pending Bills in
Parliament.
Bills opposed by Left parties lapse
Hindu,
May 27
Eight Bills
have lapsed following dissolution of the Lok Sabha. The Left
parties had reservations on the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment)
Bill, the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill and the Land Acquisition
(Amendment) Bill 2009.
Smart cards to be issued to all citizens by
2011: Chidambaram
Business Standard,
May 27
The government
plans to initiate measures to ensure availability of multipurpose
identity cards to all citizens by 2011. The project aims at
providing a unique national identity number to each person in the
National Population Register.
Manmohan's Cabinet takes charge
Indian Express,
May 29
New ministers
took charge of their offices. They include Shashi Tharoor,
Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, Jairam Ramesh,
Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Environment and
Forests, and Kapil Sibal, Ministry of Human Resource Development.
Nine UPA ministers have criminal cases against
them
Indian Express,
May 29
Nine ministers
of the Congress-led UPA Government have criminal cases pending against
them. Seven of the ministers are from the Congress, while one
each are from the DMK and the Trinamool Congress.
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