Delhi Special Police Establishment (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Parliament has passed the Delhi Special Police Establishment (Amendment) Bill, 2021. The Bill will replace the ordinance promulgated in this regard. The Bill seeks to amend the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946. Under the Act, the minimum tenure of the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation is […]
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Central Vigilance Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2021
Central Vigilance Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Parliament has passed the Central Vigilance Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2021. The bill will replace the ordinance promulgated in this regard. The Bill seeks to amend the Central Vigilance Commission Act, 2003. The Act provides for the constitution of a Central Vigilance Commission to conduct inquiries into offenses alleged to […]
Deposit Insurance And Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) Bill, 2021
Deposit Insurance And Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) Bill, 2021: The Prime Minister said that Rs 1,300 crore had been paid to over 1 lakh depositors who could not access their money as their banks faced financial crises. The deposits worth Rs 76 lakh crore were insured under the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) […]
Supreme Court on Highway Widening in Char Dham
Char Dham: The Supreme Court has allowed carriageways of three highways to be widened to 10m as part of the Char Dham roads project after modifying its earlier order limiting the width to 5.5m. A three-judge Supreme Court bench modified an earlier, September 2020 order by another three-judge bench directing that three highways being laid […]
Public Accounts Committee
Public Accounts Committee: The centennial celebrations of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee was recently held. The PAC is formed every year with a strength of not more than 22 members of which 15 are from Lok Sabha and 7 from Rajya Sabha. The term of office of the members is one year. The Chairman is appointed […]
Trafficking In Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Draft Bill 2021
Trafficking In Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Draft Bill 2021: The Indian Leadership Forum Against Trafficking (ILFAT) has written to the Ministry of Women and Child Development identifying gaps in the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) draft Bill 2021, which is expected to be tabled in the Winter session of Parliament. Issues with […]
Collegium System
Collegium System: The government has said that there was a call from within the judiciary and parliamentarians to change the collegium system for appointment of judges. A draft memorandum of procedure for bringing transparency and accountability to the system was submitted by the Government to the Supreme Court, and it was pending. In exercise of […]
Parliamentary Privileges and Privilege Motion
Privilege Motion: Two Trinamool Congress MPs and three of the Congress have moved a privilege motion against former Chief Justice of India and Rajya Sabha member Ranjan Gogoi over his remarks that he attended the House when he felt like doing so. Since he joined the House in March 2020, Mr. Gogoi, a nominated member, […]
Governor’s Role In Universities
Governor’s Role In Universities: A controversy has erupted in Kerala over the reappointment of Gopinath Ravindran as the Vice Chancellor of Kannur University. The appointment was against the decision of the Governor as the Chancellor of State Universities. While the Governor’s powers and functions as the Chancellor are laid out in the statutes that govern […]
Delimitation Exercise in Jammu and Kashmir
Delimitation Panel: The National Conference (NC) has, in a letter to the Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission (headed by retired Supreme Court Judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai), sought details of the agenda of the upcoming meeting with parties from the Union Territory. The Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission has said that it will base its […]