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Ugly Sides of Data Protection Bill and Fallacies of JPC Report -Vikas Bhadauria

-Newsclick.in The Bill and the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s recommendations are riddled with many problems, and some of them are giving rise to serious concerns over enabling the State with surveillance power. The much-awaited Joint Parliamentary Committee’s report on the country's first comprehensive data protection law has been tabled in the Parliament. After two years of intense deliberation and consultation, the report was finalised and adopted. The law, if passed, would regulate data...

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How India’s Govt Is Setting In Place A New Structure For A Dysfunctional Parliament -Prakhar Raghuvanshi

-Article-14.com The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is increasingly bypassing Parliament through executive fiat by promulgating an average of 11 ordinances a year, almost twice the number under the previous government, which averaged six. Legislative scrutiny is at its lowest point: from 70% of bills referred to committees in the previous Lok Sabha to 11% during the current. Jodhpur: On 14 November 2021, the President of India promulgated two ordinances, The...

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Three Parliamentary Committees visit J&K in 10 days -Sandeep Phukan

-The Hindu Amid growing demands for Statehood, Committee on Home Affairs wraps 6-day visit Amid growing demands for the restoration of Statehood for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh have been visited by members of as many as three Parliamentary Committees in the past 10 days. These visits by Parliamentary panels not only come two years after the bifurcation of J&K and the removal of its special status...

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Reservations Can Take The Disadvantaged To Parliament, But Not In Key Positions -Ambar Sharma

-IndiaSpend.com Lawmakers from the Scheduled Castes and Tribes are confined mostly to the lower house's social justice committee, in which they have had more than 50% representation since 2009. Just eight of 27 Parliamentary Committees meet or surpass the 25.4% representation of SC/ST members of parliament in the current Lok Sabha, our analysis shows. New Delhi: Few lawmakers from the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) in the Lok Sabha are...

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Hard bargains and the art of policymaking -MR Madhavan

-The Hindu Discontent over the new farm laws is a result of sidestepping debate and discussion in Parliament The ongoing farmers’ agitation epitomises the need to have detailed discussions and consultations while making law and policy. The process of building consensus and addressing concerns may be time-consuming, but it leads to greater acceptance of policy objectives. While such work has to be done at multiple levels, Parliament is perhaps the most important...

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