CCPA to decide date for Winter Session tomorrow

The Winter Session of Parliament is likely to be preponed to start from the second week of November and a call in this regard is set to be taken tomorrow in a meeting of Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA).
The Winter Session is normally convened in the third or fourth week of November but this year the government is looking at starting the month-long session immediately after the end of festive season.
An early session would help the Central GST (CGST) and Integrated GST (IGST) legislations, which will pave way for the Goods and Services Tax (GST), to be approved within November or latest by early December.

The CCPA meeting has been convened to decide the date for the commencement of the winter session, a source said.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh will chair the meeting. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar are the members of CCPA among others.
The government is also considering advancing the Budget Session by a month or so starting from January next year.