Finance Minister to reply on discussion over demands for grants in LS

NEW DELHI: Nirmala Sitharaman, the finance minister of India, will respond to the Lok Sabha's discussion on the requests for grants for the current fiscal year and requests for excess grants for 2019–20 on Wednesday.

To get  approval from Parliament for the payment and appropriation of funds from the Consolidated Funds of India for the current fiscal, she will also introduce the Appropriation Bills (Nos. 4 and No 5) 2022 in the Lok Sabha. The government would also seek to get the bills passed.

Arjun Munda, the minister of tribal affairs, will propose The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha in 2022.

The bill seeks to amend the list of Scheduled Tribes in Tamil Nadu by modifying the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950.

Also, the central government will work to enact the legislation in the Lower House.

It will also try to get the Anti-Piracy Maritime Bill passed in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, for which discussion had started last week.

Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will present seven reports of the Public Accounts Committee in the Lok Sabha. Last Friday, the finance Minster presented a statement in the Lok Sabha showing the first batch of supplementary demands for grants for the current fiscal.

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