Parliament Monsoon Session 2022 Live Updates: On the eighth day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha convened at 11 am on Wednesday, 27 July.
AAP MP Sanjay Singh was suspended from Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, for the remaining part of the current week for shouting slogans, tearing papers and throwing them toward the chair on Tuesday.
Both the Houses witnessed repeated adjournments, following uproar by Opposition MPs over the suspension of a total of 24 MPs (four from Lok Sabha and 20 from Rajya Sabha), among other issues such as price rise, Goods and Services Tax hikes, and inflation.
Since the Parliament session began last week, both Houses have suffered frequent adjournments as the Opposition protests against inflation, hike in GST prices, and suspension of Congress MPs, demanding a discussion on price hike in the Houses.
AAP MPs stage a protest over Gujarat hooch tragedy near the Gandhi statue during the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament.
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The Monsoon Session, which began on 18 July, is scheduled to end on 12 August.
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Family Courts (Amendment) Bill 2022. Only one other bill, Indian Antarctic Bill, 2022, has been passed by the Lower House so far
Nineteen Rajya Sabha MPs, including TMC MPs Sushmita Dev, Santanu Sen and Dola Sen, were suspended on Tuesday for the remainder of the week
As per a bulletin released by the Lok Sabha secretariat, a total of 29 bills, of which 24 are new, are to be listed in Parliament during this session
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10% Reservation for Agniveers in Constable Posts Will Not Affect 50% Ceiling
The 10 percent reservation to be given to Agniveers in the recruitment to posts of constables in central armed police forces will be horizontal and not affect the 50 percent ceiling kept by the Supreme Court, Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Lok Sabha Adjourned Till Thursday
Lok Sabha was adjourned to meet again on Thursday, 28 July at 11 am.
Lok Sabha Passes National Anti-Doping Bill 2021
Lok Sabha on Wednesday, passed the National Anti-Doping Bill, 2021, to provide a "statutory framework for the operation of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) and other dope testing laboratories, and for the creation of a National Board for Anti-Doping in Sports to strengthen anti-doping activities in sport."
The bill seeks to give NADA powers of "investigation, levying sanctions for anti-doping rule violations, the disciplinary procedures to be adopted and the powers of inspection, sample collection and sharing and free flow of information." It also provides for the establishment of the NDTL and other dope testing laboratories.
While speaking on the bill, Anurag Thakur said, "Countries like US, China, Australia, Korea and Japan had already adopted Anti Doping Law. Now India will be among these countries to have its own anti-doping law and testing laboratories as well."
He added, "Currently, we are testing 6,000 samples in a year, when we host big sporting events in our country, we will have to test 10,000 samples in a month. So we need to increase the number of testing laboratories as well."
Six Kashmir Pandits Killed in Three Years
MoS Home Nityanand Rai told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, "The number of Kashmiri Pandits killed by militants in Jammu and Kashmir during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, are 1, 4 and 1 respectively."
He also informed, "As per the records, no Kashmiri Pandit has left from the Kashmir Valley during the year 2022. The number of Kashmiri Pandits who are still residing in the valley is 6,514."