Friday, 12 August 2016

Bill passed in 240th Rajya Sabha monsoon session

The monsoon session, 2016 of Parliament was commenced on 18th July and concluded on 12th August. Here, all bills are listed that have been passed in the Upper House during this monsoon session  :

  1. Regional Centre for  Biotechnology, 2016
  2. Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation ) amendment bill, 2016
  3. The Compensatory Afforestation Fund bill, 2016
  4. The Lokpals and Lokayuktas (amendment) bill, 2016
  5. The Indian Medical Council (amendment) bill, 2016
  6. The Dentists (amendment) bill, 2016
  7. The National Institute of Technology, Science, Education and Research (amendment) bill, 2016
  8. The Institute of Technology (amendment) bill, 2016
  9. The benami transaction (prohibition) bill, 2016
  10. The constitution (122th amendment) / GST bill, 2016
  11. The mental Health care bill, 2013
  12. The enforcement for Security interest and Recovery of debt laws and Miscellaneous Provision (amendment) bill, 2016
  13. The Central Agricultural University (amendment) bill, 2016
  14. The maternity benefit (amendment) bill, 2016
A concise description of all these bills will be uploaded soon.

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Thursday, 11 August 2016

Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant in Tamil Nadu

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant has been dedicated to the entire nation by Mr. Narendra Modi after 22 years of when it was proposed. This Nuclear power plant has been established under the MoU signed between then PM Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. An article in Hindu has described the long story of this power plant.