Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till tomorrow 11 am. The BJP has issued a three-line whip to all its Rajya Sabha MPs to be present in the House tomorrow.
LIVE: Rajya Sabha passes National Medical Commission Bill
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20:20 August 01
Rajya Sabha adjourned till 11 am on 2 August
19:42 August 01
MoS Home G Kishan Reddy: 34 groups designated as terror organisations in Congress era
Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy: In order to declare Masood Azhar as a terrorist, the then Indian prime minister had sought international support. In the Congress-era, around 34 organisations were declared as terrorist organisations. We are only continuing the work that the Congress started in 1967.
19:17 August 01
Acquittal rates under UAPA Act very low, says TMC's Sukhendu Sekhar Roy
TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy: The rates of acquittal under the UAPA Act are very low, and there are several cases of people being falsely implicated.
18:58 August 01
Discussion on the UAPA Bill starts in Rajya Sabha
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 (UAPA) Bill has been moved in Rajya Sabha.
18:39 August 01
Rajya Sabha passes National Medical Commission Bill
Rajya Sabha passed the National Medical Commission Bill for replacing the 'corruption-plagued' MCI with a new body, in what was described by the government as one of the biggest reforms for medical education in the country.
The Bill that seeks to repeal the Indian Medical Council (MCI) Act 1956 was passed by a voice vote, amid a walkout by AIADMK.
The Lok Sabha on July 29 had passed the National Medical Commission Bill 2019.
17:58 August 01
Ghulam Nabi Azad demands for more seats
Former Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the number of UG and PG doctors have decreased. He demanded 40,000 more seats should be added in government medical colleges.
17:23 August 01
While responding to MPs doubts and questions on the NMC Bill, Union Minister Harsh Vardhan said that community health providers is a concept which has been adopted by even developed nations.
"21 of the 25 members of the NMC are doctors and they will decide what will be the minimum qualification required to be a community health providers. This is a WHO-approved practice," Harsh Vardhan said.
"MPs said the representation of states is less in the NMC. Of the 25 members of the council, 11 are state representatives," he said.
17:02 August 01
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan: NEET is already an institutionalised mechanism. The examination has been successfully accepted by aspiring doctors and is in 13 languages and the syllabus takes into consideration the syllabus of various boards.
16:57 August 01
Raising issues with the NMC Bill in Rajya Sabha, Kerala Congress (M) leader Jose K Mani asks details about national MBBS test as "Nothing has been specified".
16:49 August 01
BJP's Roopa Ganguly: There are many states in which politicians provide fake medical certificates to their allies which can be eliminated through this Bill.
16:10 August 01
RJD Leader Manoj Kumar Jha: The National Commission Bill should be called as National Omission Bill. Blatant privatisation is not a panacea.
14:48 August 01
Dr Santanu Sen, AITC:
-Points out flaws in the NMC Bill
-Mushrooming of private medical colleges in the country
-Opening floodgates of corruption
14:23 August 01
Shiv Sena MP asks govt if production of Train-18 stopped
A Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP sought to know from the government if production of indigenous 'Train-18' has been stopped.
Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in the House, Sanjay Raut (SS) said the semi-high speed train, popularly known as Train-18, is considered as a game changer for the Indian Railways and is one of the most successful experiments of Make-In-India.
13:11 August 01
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare provides a brief of the National Medical Commission Bill.
12:41 August 01
The National Medical Commission Bill and the UAPA (Amendment) Bill taken up at the Rajya Sabha.
12:41 August 01
Some of the salient features of the amended UAPA, 2019 are listed below:
1. Schedule 4 of the UAPA will allow the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to designate an individual suspected to have terror links as a terrorist.
2. After the amendment, if an investigation is being carried by an NIA officer, approval of the NIA DG will be sufficient for the seizure of terror-related property.
3. The bill additionally empowers the officers of the NIA of the rank of inspector or above, to investigate cases.
4. Banning of an individual terrorist under the UAPA will add India's request to other countries to designate them as a most wanted terrorist.
The UAPA Act of 2019 sought certain changes in the UAPA, 1967. However, the amendment to the act has effectively been made thrice in the years 2004, 2008 and 2013.
12:06 August 01
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman moves The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2019 for debate and passing in the Lok Sabha.
20:20 August 01
Rajya Sabha adjourned till 11 am on 2 August
Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till tomorrow 11 am. The BJP has issued a three-line whip to all its Rajya Sabha MPs to be present in the House tomorrow.
19:42 August 01
MoS Home G Kishan Reddy: 34 groups designated as terror organisations in Congress era
Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy: In order to declare Masood Azhar as a terrorist, the then Indian prime minister had sought international support. In the Congress-era, around 34 organisations were declared as terrorist organisations. We are only continuing the work that the Congress started in 1967.
19:17 August 01
Acquittal rates under UAPA Act very low, says TMC's Sukhendu Sekhar Roy
TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy: The rates of acquittal under the UAPA Act are very low, and there are several cases of people being falsely implicated.
18:58 August 01
Discussion on the UAPA Bill starts in Rajya Sabha
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 (UAPA) Bill has been moved in Rajya Sabha.
18:39 August 01
Rajya Sabha passes National Medical Commission Bill
Rajya Sabha passed the National Medical Commission Bill for replacing the 'corruption-plagued' MCI with a new body, in what was described by the government as one of the biggest reforms for medical education in the country.
The Bill that seeks to repeal the Indian Medical Council (MCI) Act 1956 was passed by a voice vote, amid a walkout by AIADMK.
The Lok Sabha on July 29 had passed the National Medical Commission Bill 2019.
17:58 August 01
Ghulam Nabi Azad demands for more seats
Former Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the number of UG and PG doctors have decreased. He demanded 40,000 more seats should be added in government medical colleges.
17:23 August 01
While responding to MPs doubts and questions on the NMC Bill, Union Minister Harsh Vardhan said that community health providers is a concept which has been adopted by even developed nations.
"21 of the 25 members of the NMC are doctors and they will decide what will be the minimum qualification required to be a community health providers. This is a WHO-approved practice," Harsh Vardhan said.
"MPs said the representation of states is less in the NMC. Of the 25 members of the council, 11 are state representatives," he said.
17:02 August 01
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan: NEET is already an institutionalised mechanism. The examination has been successfully accepted by aspiring doctors and is in 13 languages and the syllabus takes into consideration the syllabus of various boards.
16:57 August 01
Raising issues with the NMC Bill in Rajya Sabha, Kerala Congress (M) leader Jose K Mani asks details about national MBBS test as "Nothing has been specified".
16:49 August 01
BJP's Roopa Ganguly: There are many states in which politicians provide fake medical certificates to their allies which can be eliminated through this Bill.
16:10 August 01
RJD Leader Manoj Kumar Jha: The National Commission Bill should be called as National Omission Bill. Blatant privatisation is not a panacea.
14:48 August 01
Dr Santanu Sen, AITC:
-Points out flaws in the NMC Bill
-Mushrooming of private medical colleges in the country
-Opening floodgates of corruption
14:23 August 01
Shiv Sena MP asks govt if production of Train-18 stopped
A Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP sought to know from the government if production of indigenous 'Train-18' has been stopped.
Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in the House, Sanjay Raut (SS) said the semi-high speed train, popularly known as Train-18, is considered as a game changer for the Indian Railways and is one of the most successful experiments of Make-In-India.
13:11 August 01
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare provides a brief of the National Medical Commission Bill.
12:41 August 01
The National Medical Commission Bill and the UAPA (Amendment) Bill taken up at the Rajya Sabha.
12:41 August 01
Some of the salient features of the amended UAPA, 2019 are listed below:
1. Schedule 4 of the UAPA will allow the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to designate an individual suspected to have terror links as a terrorist.
2. After the amendment, if an investigation is being carried by an NIA officer, approval of the NIA DG will be sufficient for the seizure of terror-related property.
3. The bill additionally empowers the officers of the NIA of the rank of inspector or above, to investigate cases.
4. Banning of an individual terrorist under the UAPA will add India's request to other countries to designate them as a most wanted terrorist.
The UAPA Act of 2019 sought certain changes in the UAPA, 1967. However, the amendment to the act has effectively been made thrice in the years 2004, 2008 and 2013.
12:06 August 01
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman moves The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2019 for debate and passing in the Lok Sabha.
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