Parliament Budget Session Highlights: Lok Sabha passes bill to include some tribal communities in ST list in four UP districts

Parliament Budget Session 2022 Highlights: Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill 2022 was passed in Lok Sabha on Friday. The Bill aims to include certain tribal communities in the list of Scheduled Tribes in four newly-created districts in Uttar Pradesh.  Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda said the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2022 seeks to include Gond, Dhuria, Nayak, Ojha, Pathari and Rajgond communities living in the districts of Sant Kabir Nagar, Kushinagar, Chandauli and Sant Ravidas Nagar in the list of Scheduled Tribes in the state.

Union minister Jitendra Singh is introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to provide a regulatory framework for India’s research activities in the Antarctic. The Indian Antarctica Bill is expected to help India fulfil its obligations under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources of 1982 and the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty of 1998, PTI reported.

On Thursday, Rajya Sabha Thursday bade farewell to 72 members retiring this year. “Char deewaron mein paya hua, char dishaon mein le jayein, ye hum sabka sankalp rahe (We may be moving out of these four walls, but we should take this experience from here to all four directions),” Modi said, adding that he hopes most members return.