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system of allocations through the Screening Committee mechanism till the new system of auction based competitive bidding could be put in place. Stopping the process of allocation would only have delayed the much needed expansion in the supply of coal. Postponing the allocation of coal blocks until the new system was in place would have meant lower energy production, lower GDP growth and also lower revenues. It was unfortunate that the CAG did not take these aspects into account. The Prime Minister
emphatically stated that it had always been the intention of the government to augment production of coal by making
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available coal blocks for captive mining through transparent processes and guidelines which fully took into account the legitimate concerns of all stakeholders, including the state governments. The implicit suggestion of the CAG that the government should have circumvented the legislative process through administrative instructions, over the registered objections of several state governments including those ruled by opposition parties, if implemented would have been undemocratic and contrary to the spirit of the functioning of our federal polity. The facts showed that the CAG’s findings were flawed on multiple counts. As the report of the CAG was
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The All-India Institute of Medical Science (Amendment) Bill, 2012 The All-India Institute of Medical Sciences Act, 1956 (AIIMS Act) was enacted to provide for the establishment of an All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The main object of the aforesaid Act is to provide a high standard of medical education, both post-graduate and under-graduate, for all medical colleges and other allied institutions in the country. The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
(Prime Minister’s Health Protection Scheme) was announced on 15 August 2003 with the objective of correcting the imbalances in the availability of affordable or reliable tertiary level health care and also for improving facilities for quality medical education in the States. Initially six All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, one each in the State of Bihar (Patna), Chhattisgarh (Raipur), Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal), Odisha (Bhubaneswar), Rajasthan (Jodhpur) and Uttarakhand (Rishikesh) were set up under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 broadly similar to the existing AIIMS, New Delhi. The six institutes were registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, which did not allow authorities to impart medical education and grant degrees or diplomas in the field of medical education. In order for the institutes and other institutions to be established in the future, a statutory status was proposed by amending the AIIMS Act.
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As Parliament was not in session the President promulgated the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Ordinance, 2012. To achieve these objectives, the Government brought
forward the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2012, replacing the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Ordinance, 2012. The salient features of the Bill brought forward amendments that included:
• Long title of the AIIMS Act to provide for establishment of more than one All-India Institute of Medical Sciences at various locations in different States, instead of the one existing All-India Institute of Medical Sciences at New Delhi, as provided in the said Act; and
• Changing the status of the aforesaid six All-India Institute of Medical Sciences already registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, to be an autonomous body corporate on the lines of the existing All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
The Bill was passed by Lok Sabha on 30 August
2012 and by Rajya Sabha on 4 September 2012. The Bill as passed by both Houses of Parliament was assented to by the President of India on 12 September 2012. The Ordinance was accordingly replaced by the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Act, 2012.
before the House, appropriate action on the recommendations and observations contained in the report would follow through the established parliamentary procedures, added the Prime Minister.
Members concern over violence in Assam There were incidents of violence in some parts of Assam in July and August 2012, in which 73 people were killed and 61 injured. About 200,000 people were rendered homeless and sheltered in relief camps. On 8 August 2012, the opposition raised the matter by way of an adjournment motion against the government for its “failure in assessing the situation arising
out of the illegal infiltration into Assam and in curbing the large scale ethnic violence in Bodoland Territorial Administration Council area of Kokrajhar District, Dhubri and other districts where many persons have been killed and thousands have been displaced”.
Hon. Meira Kumar, MP
Making a reference earlier in the day to the violent incidents the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Hon. Meira Kumar, MP, expressed her profound sorrow. Moving the motion, Shri L.K.
Advani, MP, (BJP) argued that the central government had failed in curbing the recent incidents in Assam. The problem was not a matter of ethnicity but a question of who was Indian and who was a foreign national. The infiltration
Shri L.K. Advani, MP
from Bangladesh was a threat to Assam and the entire nation. No country would tolerate such massive illegal immigration but in India no action had been taken even after repeated pleas by the Supreme Court. There was a fear
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