After visits to Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the ultimate leg of his three-state tour. On Tuesday, Modi is in Assam’s Guwahati to inaugurate the Benefit Assam 2.0 Infrastructure and Funding Summit.
On Monday, the PM had launched the World Buyers Summit in Bhopal. In Assam, Modi will launch the state’s summit within the presence of industrialists Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Anil Agarwal, Prashant Ruia, Sajjan Jindal and others together with entrepreneurs from Assam.
Union Ministers S Jaishankar, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Sarbananda Sonowal and Pabitra Margherita may even be current on the summit whereas Union Minister of Highway Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari will nearly tackle a session.
The funding summit in Assam will embody an inaugural session, seven ministerial classes and 14 thematic classes. It can additionally embody a complete exhibition illustrating the state’s financial panorama.
In the meantime, President Droupadi Murmu is in Bihar to attend the centenary celebration of the Patna Medical School on Tuesday.
‘One Nation, One Election’ panel assembly
The third assembly of the Parliamentary committee analyzing the 2 Payments for simultaneous elections will probably be held on Tuesday, with former Chief Justice of India U U Lalit, and others from the authorized fraternity, being referred to as to present options earlier than the panel.
The Indian Categorical has learnt the panel will hear the views of Niten Chandra, Secretary, Excessive-Degree Committee on Simultaneous Elections in India; Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Chairperson of the twenty second Legislation Fee of India; U U Lalit, former Chief Justice of India; and E M Sudarsana Natchiappan, former MP and senior advocate on the Supreme Court docket.
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The final assembly of the committee was held on January 31, the place discussions have been held on “the process and modalities for examination of the Modification Payments”. The committee had additionally mentioned plans to carry an in depth public session and consciousness marketing campaign, together with initiatives like essay-writing and debate competitions for varsity and faculty college students.
Opposition members, together with leaders from the Congress and the Trinamool Congress, had opposed the concept, mentioning that the Payments are but to be handed by Parliament.
An indicative listing of 23 completely different classes of stakeholders who will probably be referred to as to depose earlier than the committee included political events, retired judges, the Election Commissioners (present and former), trade our bodies, commerce unions, farmers’ unions, administration institutes, assume tanks, political analysts and election strategists and public sector undertakings. To hunt public views, the committee is predicted to arrange a web site for submissions.
Pending CAG reviews in Delhi Meeting
The newly elected BJP authorities in Delhi is about to desk in its first Meeting session the 14 pending reviews of the Comptroller and Auditor Normal (CAG) on the earlier AAP authorities’s efficiency, fulfilling certainly one of its election guarantees.
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Throughout the ballot marketing campaign, the BJP had steadily focused the AAP on corruption – from the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ row to the alleged excise coverage rip-off – and claimed the Arvind Kejriwal-led get together had withheld the reviews.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had introduced February 20, shortly after taking oath of workplace, that the reviews could be made public within the first session below the brand new authorities. The BJP had repeatedly demanded the discharge of those reviews through the AAP’s tenure, even shifting the court docket to direct the federal government to desk them.
The pending CAG audits embody critiques of state funds, public well being infrastructure, vehicular air air pollution, liquor regulation and the functioning of the Delhi Transport Company, amongst others.
In the meantime, in Punjab, the AAP authorities will carry a decision within the Meeting on Tuesday in opposition to the Centre’s draft of the Nationwide Coverage Framework on Agricultural Advertising and marketing.
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The Punjab authorities final month rejected the Centre’s draft coverage, asserting that it’s an try and carry again the “contentious” provisions of the three farms legal guidelines repealed in 2021 by the Centre after a year-long protest by farmers. The decision comes days after protesting farmers’ teams met with Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, with the following assembly scheduled for March 19.
– With PTI inputs
