The Business Advisory Committee For New Session

Lok Sabha Speaker sets up the Business Advisory Committee for the new session. The Committee includes members such as Sudip Bandhyopadhyay, Gaurav Gogoi, Dayanidhi Maran, PP Chaudhary, and Anurag Thakur, among others.

Six new bill to amend the disaster management law

Six new Bills, including the one to amend the disaster management law, will be presented during the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning next week. Besides the Finance Bill, the government has also listed the Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024, to replace the Aircraft Act of 1934 to provide enabling provisions for ease of doing business in the civil aviation sector. The list of Bills was published in the Parliament bulletin issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat on July 18, evening. The Monsoon Session begins on July 22 and will continue till August 12.

Other bills

Other Bills listed for introduction and passage during the session are The Boilers Bill to replace the pre-independence era law, the Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill and the Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla also constituted the Business Advisory Committee (BAC), which decides the parliamentary agenda.

Who will chaired the committee?

The committee chaired by the Speaker has Sudip Bandyopadhyay (TMC), P P Chaudhary (BJP), Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu (TDP), Nishikant Dubey (BJP), Gaurav Gogoi (Congress), Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP), Dileshwar Kamait (JD-U), Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJP), Dayanidhi Maran (DMK), Baijayant Panda (BJP), Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena-UBT), Kodikunnil Suresh (Congress), Anurag Thakur (BJP) and Lalji Verma (SP) as members.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

• First election in Lok Sabha: 25 October 1951 – 21 February 1952
• Last election in Lok Sabha: 19 April – 1 June 2024
• Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha: Rahul Gandhi, INC; since 9 June 2024
• Leader of the House in Lok Sabha: Narendra Modi, BJP; since 26 May 2014
• Minister of Parliamentary Affairs: Kiren Rijiju, BJP; since 10 June 2024
• Next election in Lok Sabha: 2029
• President of India: Droupadi Murmu; since 25 July 2022