Bills on Waqf, immigration and foreigners listed for Budget session

New Delhi: The Union government has listed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill as well as three other new draft laws for consideration in the Budget session of Parliament beginning Friday.
The joint committee of Parliament, which examined the amendment bill on Waqf on Thursday, submitted its report to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, paving for the government to move amendments on the bill tabled last year. The Mussalman Wakf (Repeal) Bill was also introduced along with the Waqf amendment bill.
The government has also listed three new bills for the session — ‘The Protection of Interests in Aircraft Objects Bill, ‘Tribhuvan Sahkari University Bill’, and the ‘Immigration and Foreigners Bill’.
The Finance Bill, 2025 and related demands for grants and appropriation bills have also been listed by the government for the session.
There are 10 other bills which are pending in both the Houses since the previous session.
The session commences on Friday with the address of the president to the joint sitting of the two Houses.
The Union Budget will be presented on February 1.
The first leg of the session will conclude on February 13 and the second leg will continue from March 10. The session will conclude on April 4.P
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, set to make history with her eighth consecutive Union Budget, has worked tirelessly with key officials, including Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey, to prepare a budget of over Rs 50 lakh crore for FY26.
The Budget will have to address several challenges, including decelerating economic growth, falling value of Rupee against the US dollar and moderation in consumption demand.
The economic growth is estimated to slow to a 4-year low of 6.4 per cent in FY25. This is the lowest growth since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic which hit the world in 2019.
Sitharaman, who had steered the Indian economy through many difficult phases, including once-in-a-century pandemic, is again confronted with economic deceleration, moderation in consumption, stagnant private investment, and an uncertain geopolitical situation.
On account of various factors, the rupee plunged to an all-time low of 86.7 per US dollar earlier this month.
The team, assisting the Finance Minister to frame Budget proposals for 2025-26, includes Revenue Secretary Pandey, Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth, Expenditure Secretary Manoj Govil, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) Secretary Arunish Chawla, Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju, and Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran.

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