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Parliament Session Alert Budget Session: January 31, 2025 – April 4, 2025 |
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Highlights
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Bills listed for introduction, consideration and passing
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Short Title |
Key Objective |
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Finance |
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The Finance Bill, 2025 |
Seeks to give effect to tax proposals |
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Home Affairs |
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The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025 |
Seeks to simplify laws by repealing and reenacting four Acts: (i) the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920, (ii) the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939, (iii) the Foreigners Act, 1936, and (iv) the Immigration (Carriers’ Liability) Act, 2000 |
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Aviation |
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The Protection of Interests in Aircraft Objects Bill, 2025 |
Seeks to provide a mechanism for protection of interests in aircraft objects and to implement two relevant international conventions |
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Education |
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The “Tribhuvan” Sahkari University Bill, 2025 |
To establish the “Tribhuvan” Sahkari University |
Bills listed for consideration and passing
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Short Title |
Key Objectives |
Introduced on |
Status |
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Minority Affairs / Home Affairs / Social Justice |
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Amends the Waqf Act, 1995, to allow for non-Muslims members in the Central Waqf Council and Waqf Boards, revoke the finality of Waqf Tribunal decisions, and grant Collectors the power to conduct surveys of waqf properties. |
8 Aug 2024 Lok Sabha |
Referred to Joint Parliamentary Committee presented to Speaker on 30 Jan 2025 |
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Repeals the Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923. |
8 Aug 2024 Lok Sabha |
Pending in Lok Sabha |
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Provides for creation of Urban Disaster Management Authorities in cities and for formation of State Disaster Response Forces at the state level. |
1 Aug 2024 Lok Sabha |
Passed by Lok Sabha Pending in Rajya Sabha |
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Reserves seats in the Goa Legislative Assembly for Scheduled Tribes. |
5 Aug 2024 Lok Sabha |
Pending in Lok Sabha |
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Transport / Shipping |
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Replaces the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, modifies provisions related to ship registration, regulation of maritime training institutes, seafarer welfare, and pollution control. |
10 Dec 2024 Lok Sabha |
Pending in Lok Sabha |
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Seeks to regulate vessels engaged in trade within Indian coastal waters. |
2 Dec 2024 Lok Sabha |
Pending in Lok Sabha |
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Repeals the Indian Railway Board Act, 1905 and incorporates the provisions of the 1905 Act into the Railways Act, 1989. |
9 Aug 2024 Lok Sabha |
Passed by Lok Sabha Pending in Rajya Sabha |
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Replaces the Indian Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925, which provides for the rights and liabilities attached to goods transported via sea. Retains most provisions of the Act. |
9 Aug 2024 Lok Sabha |
Pending in Lok Sabha |
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Replaces the Indian Bills of Lading Act, 1856, which provides for a legal framework for issuance of bills of lading, a document issued by a freight carrier to a shipper. Retains most provisions of the Act. |
9 Aug 2024 Lok Sabha |
Pending in Lok Sabha |
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Banking / Commerce and Industry |
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The Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Amendment Bill, 2024 |
Expands the definition of mineral oils, introduces petroleum leases, and decriminalises some offences. |
5 Aug 2024 Rajya Sabha |
Passed by Rajya Sabha Pending in Lok Sabha |
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Replaces the Boilers Act, 1923, which provides for the regulation and safe operation of boilers. Bill retains all provisions of the Act. |
8 Aug 2024 Rajya Sabha |
Passed by Rajya Sabha Pending in Lok Sabha |
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Amends different banking laws to alter the tenure of directors of co-operative banks, and expand provisions for the settlement of unclaimed amounts. |
9 Aug 2024 Lok Sabha |
Passed by Lok Sabha Pending in Rajya Sabha |
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Sources: Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Bulletins dated January 31, 2025; PRS.
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