Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju to helm all-party meet today on Budget session eve

NEW DELHI: Govt has convened an all-party meeting on Sunday ahead of the budget session in which finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union budget in Parliament on Tuesday. She will table the Economic Survey in the House on Monday.

Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju will hold the meeting of floor leaders of all parties in Parliament to understand issues they would want to raise during the session.

The session will begin on Monday and will have 19 sittings till Aug 12 when govt is expected to present six bills, including the one to replace the 90-year-old Aircraft Act, and also seek Parliament's nod for the Budget for J&K, which is under central rule.

Govt is likely to bring amendments to the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and other laws such as Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970, and the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 in the Budget session due to which the govt's shareholding in PSBs can go down below 51 per cent.

Besides the Finance Bill, govt has listed The Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill for introduction, consideration and passing. The proposed legislation aims to bring more clarity and convergence in the roles of different organisations working in the field of disaster management, a Lok Sabha bulletin issued Thursday said.

Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024 seeks to replace the Aircraft Act of 1934 to provide enabling provisions for ease of doing business in the civil aviation sector.

The 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 has also constituted the Business Advisory Committee (BAC), which decides the parliamentary agenda. 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.