Govt lists six bills for monsoon session

Six new bills will be presented during the Monsoon Session of Parliament that will be held from July 22 to August 12, and will see Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presenting the Union Budget on July 23.

The new bills already listed include Finance Bill, the Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024 that will replace the Aircraft Act of 1934 to provide enabling provisions for ease of doing business in the civil aviation sector, and a bill to amend the disaster management act.

The Boilers Bill to replace a pre-independence era law, the Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill, and the Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill are the other three bills.


Speaker Om Birla has reconstituted the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) to include former Union Minister Anurag Thakur and Nishikant Dubey of the BJP. The committee deliberates on the agenda of the lower house and finalises time for the house business.

Besides Thakur and Dubey, the BAC has members from other parties as well. The committee chaired by the Speaker has Sudip Bandyopadhyay (TMC), P P Chaudhary (BJP), Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu (TDP), 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 and Lalji Verma (SP) as members.