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    The Budget Session of the Indian Parliament will focus on passing 12 important bills, most of which have already passed the Lok Sabha. The key bills include the GST Bill, Real Estate Bill, Lokpal Bill, Anti-Hijacking Bill, Whistle Blowers Protection Bill, High Court and Supreme Court Judges Bill, Repealing and Amending Bill, Appropriation Acts Repeal Bill, Industries Amendment Bill, Bureau of Indian Standards Bill, National Waterways Bill, and Carriage by Air Amendment Bill. The session will run from February 23 to May 13, 2016 with 31 sittings to draw consensus among MPs on these essential bills.

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    The Budget Session of the Indian Parliament will focus on passing 12 important bills, most of which have already passed the Lok Sabha. The key bills include the GST Bill, Real Estate Bill, Lokpal Bill, Anti-Hijacking Bill, Whistle Blowers Protection Bill, High Court and Supreme Court Judges Bill, Repealing and Amending Bill, Appropriation Acts Repeal Bill, Industries Amendment Bill, Bureau of Indian Standards Bill, National Waterways Bill, and Carriage by Air Amendment Bill. The session will run from February 23 to May 13, 2016 with 31 sittings to draw consensus among MPs on these essential bills.

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    12 key Bills Indian lawmakers will seek to pass this Budget Session

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    The Budget Session of the Indian Parliament will focus on passing 12 important bills, most of which have already passed the Lok Sabha. The key bills include the GST Bill, Real Estate Bill, Lokpal Bill, Anti-Hijacking Bill, Whistle Blowers Protection Bill, High Court and Supreme Court Judges Bill, Repealing and Amending Bill, Appropriation Acts Repeal Bill, Industries Amendment Bill, Bureau of Indian Standards Bill, National Waterways Bill, and Carriage by Air Amendment Bill. The session will run from February 23 to May 13, 2016 with 31 sittings to draw consensus among MPs on these essential bills.

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    TheBudgetSessionoftheIndianParliamentwillbeheldfromFeb.23toMay13,2016with31sittingsinall.
    Theagendaforthisgovernment,caughtinthemidstofvariouspoliticalstormssuchasRohithVemulas
    suicideandthecrisisatJawaharlalNehruUniversity,wouldbetodrawconsensusamongallMPsfor12
    essentialBills.MostofthemlistedbelowhavealreadybeenpassedintheLokSabhaandarependingin
    theRajyaSabha:

    BillslistedforConsiderationandPassing
    GSTBill

    GivesconcurrenttaxationpowerstothecentreandstatestolevyaGoodsand
    ServicesTax,andcreatesaGoodsandServicesTaxCouncil.

    RealEstate
    Bill

    Regulatestransactionsbetweenbuyersandpromotersofrealestateprojects
    andsetsupstatelevelRegulatoryAuthoritiestomonitorit

    LokpalBill

    ModifiesthecompositionoftheSelectionCommitteetoincludetheleaderof
    thesinglelargestoppositionpartyintheLokSabha,andthemannerof
    declarationofassetsofpublicservants.

    AntiHijacking

    AntiHijacking
    Bill
    Whistle
    Blowers
    Protection
    (Amendment)
    Bill

    ReplacestheAntiHijackingAct,1982.Defineshijackingandawardsdeath
    penaltyforhijackingincertaincases,suchasdeathofhostageorsecurity
    personnel.

    Prohibitsreportingofcorruptionrelatedcomplaintsthatfallunder10
    specifiedcategoriessuchaseconomicandscientificinterests,cabinet
    proceedingsandthosewithintheambitoftheOfficialSecretsAct.

    HighCourt&
    SupremeCourt
    JudgesBill

    Seekstoensureuniformityinpensionsandotherconditionsofserviceof
    SupremeCourtandHighCourtjudges.

    Repealingand
    AmendingBill

    Repeals295Actswhichhaveceasedtobeinforce,andamendstwoActs.

    Appropriation
    Acts(Repeal)
    Bill
    Industries
    Amendment
    Bill

    Seekstorepeal758AppropriationActs.

    ExcludesproductionofalcoholforpotablepurposesfromtheambitoftheAct.

    Bureauof
    Indian
    StandardsBill

    ReplacestheBureauofIndianStandardsAct,1986.SeekstoestablishBISas
    thenationalstandardsbodyandmandatorystandardisationofproducts.

    National
    Waterways
    Bill,2015

    Replacesthefiveexistingnationalwaterwayslaws.Identifiesadditional101
    waterwaysasnationalwaterways.

    CarriagebyAir
    (Amendment)
    Bill

    Allowsthecentralgovernmenttoreviseliabilitylimitsofaircarriersfor
    compensationrelatedtodeath,injury,andlossofbaggage.

    Apartfromthis,fourotherBillshavealsobeenlistedforintroduction,considerationandpassingtwofor
    introductionandtwoforwithdrawal.
    Source:PRSLegislativeResearch

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