Rajya Sabha passes Bill to raise FDI limit in insurance sector The Rajya Sabha passed the Insurance Amendment Bill, 2021 that increases the maximum foreign investment allowed in an insurance company from 49% to 74%, amid criticism from the Opposition…
Structural issues of Union Territories Recently,MLAs from the Puducherry Assembly have turned out to be an ingenious move to topple the government. This was done in 2019 with devastating effect in Karnataka. In both cases, the governments lost majority and went…
Law and compassion Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has decided that only the President can decide the issue of granting remission to the seven life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Is the Governor correct in putting the ball in…
Parliamentary scrutiny Parliamentary scrutiny – The new Farm bills passed by parliament in the last monsoon session have evoked a scale of protest unforeseen by the government. Over the years, the Indian Parliament has increasingly adopted the committee system as did…
Parliamentary Committee System A Parliamentary Committee means a Committee which is appointed or elected by the House or nominated by the Speaker and which works under the direction of the Speaker and presents its report to the House or to…
Central Vista Project Central Vista project seeks to build a new parliament and other central government offices in Lutyens’ zone in central Delhi. The Central government wants to redevelop the Central Vista, the 3-km long stretch from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India…
System of Cess In India The latest audit of the Union Government’s accounts tabled in Parliament has revealed that about 40% of all the cess collections in 2018-19 have been retained in the Consolidated Fund of India (CFI). Cess Cess…
Dilution of Offset Policy The government diluted the “offset” policy in defence procurement, reportedly in response to a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India’s report tabled in Parliament last month. The move is a setback for augmenting domestic capabilities…
Rajya Sabha The origin of the second Chamber can be traced to the Montague-Chelmsford Report of 1918. The Government of India Act, 1919 provided for the creation of a ‘Council of State’ as a second chamber of the then legislature…