The Journal of Parliamentary Information ________________________________________________________ VOLUME LXIV NO.4 DECEMBER 2018 ________________________________________________________ LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI ___________________________________ The Journal of Parliamentary Information _____________________________________________________________ VOLUME LXIV NO.4 DECEMBER 2018 CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL NOTE ... ADDRESS - Address by the Speaker, Lok Sabha, Smt. Sumitra Mahajan at the function to confer Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards … PARLIAMENTARY EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES … PARLIAMENTARY AND CONSTITUTIONAL … DEVELOPMENTS PRIVILEGE ISSUES … PROCEDURAL MATTERS … DOCUMENTS OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND … PARLIAMENTARY INTEREST SESSIONAL REVIEW Lok Sabha … Rajya Sabha … State Legislatures … RECENT LITERATURE OF PARLIAMENTARY INTEREST … APPENDICES I. Statement showing the work transacted during the … Fifteenth Session of the Sixteenth Lok Sabha II. Statement showing the work transacted during the … 246th Session of the Rajya Sabha III. Statement showing the activities of the Legislatures of … the States and Union Territories during the period 1 July to 30 September 2018 IV. List of Bills passed by the Houses of Parliament … and assented to by the President during the period 1 July to 30 September 2018 V. List of Bills passed by the Legislatures of the States … and the Union Territories during the period 1 July to 30 September 2018 VI. Ordinances promulgated by the Union … and State Governments during the period 1 July to 30 September 2018 VII. Party Position in the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha … and the Legislatures of the States and the Union Territories INDEX … ADDRESS AT THE FUNCTION TO CONFER OUTSTANDING PARLIAMENTARIAN AWARDS FOR THE YEARS 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 AND 2017 AT THE CENTRAL HALL OF PARLIAMENT HOUSE, NEW DELHI _____________________________________________________________________________ On 1 August 2018, Hon’ble Speaker, Lok Sabha, Smt. Sumitra Mahajan delivered a speech at the function to confer Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards for the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 at the Central Hall of Parliament House, New Delhi. We reproduce here the text of the Address. --- Editor Honourable Members and Distinguished guests: It is indeed a matter of great pleasure and honour for me to welcome you all in this graceful function to confer the Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards for the last five years from 2013 to 2017. We are grateful to the Hon. President for his graceful presence and for his consent to confer these prestigious awards. On this occasion, I extend warm welcome to Hon. Vice President and Hon. Prime Minister also. I also congratulate the Parliamentarians selected for this prestigious award from the core of my heart. Outstanding Parliamentarian Award instituted by the Indian Parliamentary Group is being awarded to those Parliamentarians who have set exemplary examples in the performance of their Parliamentary duties and established higher standards of Parliamentary conventions. Our history has witnessed many glorious, diligent and experienced Parliamentarians, who have made indelible mark of their personalities on the proceedings of this sacrosanct institution of democracy. Today, five more names are being added to that glorious list and these personalities do not need any introduction. Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the year 2013 is being conferred upon the experienced Parliamentarian and present Governor of Manipur and Ex-Union Minister, Dr. Najma Heptullah ji. She has served the Rajya Sabha as Deputy Chairperson for 17 years. She has a vast experience of 34 years of working in the Parliament. As the Presiding Officer of the Rajya Sabha, she has enriched the Parliamentary system and conventions with her contributions. She has demonstrated her diplomatic and administrative skills at the National and International levels. Indian polity has been benefited by her vast experience and talents. She has the honour of being elected as the first women Chairperson of Inter Parliamentary Union unanimously in 1999. As a mark of respect for her efforts to promote democracy at the international level, Inter Parliament Union has nominated her as Honorary Life President in the year 2002. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Madhubani of Bihar State and well wisher of farmers, Hon’ble Hukmdev Narayan Yadav has been selected for Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the year 2014. He has been prestigiously serving in the public life for the last three decades and with his extraordinary oratory skills he forcefully ventilates the concerns of common man (particularly of farmers and poor people) and his parliamentary constituency in the House. He has also served the people of this country as Union Minister of State. He always attracts the attention of one and all with his unique oratory style and impeccable arguments during his speech in the parliamentary discussions. He has close connect with the people at grass root level as a popular and dedicated mass leader leading a very simple life. He has an extraordinary ability to feel the sentiments and aspirations of common people. Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the year 2015 is being conferred upon the Senior Leader of Indian National Congress, who is active in politics for the last 45 years from Jammu and Kashmir and Hon’ble Member of Rajya Sabha, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad. An experienced, seasoned politician and a person known as trouble shooter of his party Shri Azad has served the country in the past as Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs and Urban Development Ministries and as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. He is revered from treasury benches and opposition both for his experience, political understanding and for his practical approach. Indeed, it is a matter of great pleasure for us to confer this prestigious award upon him for his contribution in parliamentary politics. Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the year 2016 is being conferred upon Lok Sabha Member of All India Trinamool Congress from Barrackpur, West Bengal, Shri Dinesh Trivedi ji, who has been active in politics for the last 4 decades. Shri Dinesh Trivedi is known as a knowledgeable, thoughtful, prominent speaker and a Parliamentarian. When he speaks in the Parliament then he expresses his independent opinion with serious arguments and his speeches are always of high standards. In this list of prestigious awardees, the next name is of the popular and soft spoken Member of Parliament of Biju Janta Dal, Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab, who is being awarded for the year 2017 with Outstanding Parliamentarian Award. His election from the Cuttack Parliamentary Constituency of Odisha for five continuous terms is testimony to his popularity. His prudent speeches and meaningful participation in discussions and debates on various issues in Lok Sabha puts him in the league of eminent parliamentarians who have put forth their serious compendious discourses on various issues which are of logical in nature and meaningful too. He is always courteous and respectful towards his colleagues in the Parliament and his conduct always upheld the parliamentary dignity and decorum. In spite of being soft spoken, he puts his views in a forceful manner. It is well described in our scriptures:- "�व饍व配वं च नप配वंृ च नैव तु쥍ये कदाचन।् वदेशे पू煍यते राजा �व饍वान ्सव셍त्र पू煍यते।।" (Intelligence and kingdom can never be compared. A king is respected in his own state whereas a wise man is respected everywhere.) We all very well know the fact that the perception of Parliament and its effectiveness to a large extent depends on conduct and performance of its Members. Parliament is a reflection of society itself because it represents the will of the society. Democratic system of governance is the most refined system of governance and debate- discussions, views-counter views, agreement-disagreement are part and parcel of it and all these things sustain the democracy. But we must always remember that these debate-discussions, views-counter views and agreements-disagreements should not cross the limit of accepted norms of dignity and decorum. When we behave keeping in view of these limits then the confidence of the people will be reposed in the democracy. I strongly believe that Parliament has its own dignity and it is absolute duty of Members to uphold it. The Almighty has bestowed upon us with this opportunity, so we must work to uphold the dignity and eminence of our Parliament in this multi-party system of our parliamentary democracy. It has been said in the Shrimadbhagwatgita that:- "य饍यदाचर�त श्रे�ठत�देवेतरो जनः । सय配प्रमाणं कु 셁ते लोकतदनुवत셍ते।। (Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.) The whole world takes the democratic values, principles and ideals of India as an example and also it is source of inspiration to the whole world. All over the world people eagerly observe our parliamentary proceedings and keep a watch on it. The outstanding Parliamentarians, who are being honoured today, have enhanced the dignity of the great institution with their prudence and exemplary conduct in the Parliament. With these words, I once again congratulate the Hon’ble Members receiving this award and their family members and I have a firm belief that the other Members present here will also get inspiration and encouragement from their duty boundedness, oratory skills and virtues. I wish them happy and