Budget session might begin on July 7
 "Budget session might begin on July 7")
The Cabinet, which met on Wednesday to discuss the tentative schedule for the Budget session, has decided upon July 7 as the commencement date.
"We discussed the schedule of the Budget session. But there is a modality for the finalisation of dates. Once those are complete, we will let you know," Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters after the Cabinet meeting.
However, sources said the session is likely to begin on July 7 and might go on till July 31.
Both the Budgets have to be cleared before July-end as the votes-on-account taken before the Lok Sabha elections will expire by then.
Prasad said the decision to bring a Bill to amend the Trai Act was taken at the meeting. "The Ordinance will be made into a law. The Cabinet has approved the shape of the proposed law. We will present the Bill in this session (Budget session) of Parliament," Prasad said.
Before the Ordinance was promulgated, the TRAI Act prohibited its chairman and members from taking up any other job in the central or state governments after demitting office.
To circumvent this section, which would have barred Misra from taking up the assignment of principal secretary to PM, the Modi government promulgated an ordinance amending it.
The Cabinet also approved scrapping of empowered group of ministers (EGoMs) and group of minsters (GoMs), set up by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Modi had on May 31 abolished all the 30 EGoMs and GoMs and told ministries and departments concerned to take decisions on pending matters.
"All the facts related to the GoMs were placed before the Cabinet. Governments used to function on the basis of GoMs and we decided to end these. We confirmed the decision to abolish such EGoMs and GoMs," Prasad said.
The Cabinet gave a nod to the constitution of a supervisory committee on the Mullaperiyar Dam to implement the judgment of the Supreme Court.
Last month, an apex court's bench appointed a three-member committee with chairman of the Central Water Commission as the chairperson and representatives from the States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu to supervise and ensure that the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam was raised up to 142 ft.
The court had declared as unconstitutional the law passed by Kerala in 2006, constituting the Dam Safety Authority to prevent the State from raising the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam from 136 ft to 142 ft. End
"We discussed the schedule of the Budget session. But there is a modality for the finalisation of dates. Once those are complete, we will let you know," Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters after the Cabinet meeting.
However, sources said the session is likely to begin on July 7 and might go on till July 31.
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Among other matters, the session would see tabling of the rail Budget, Economic Survey for 2013-14, the general Budget and a Bill to replace an ordinance for removing legal hurdles in the appointment of former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Nripendra Misra as the principal secretary to the Prime Minister. The amendment Bill was approved by the Cabinet. While, the rail Budget may be tabled on July 9, the general Budget may be presented in the Lok Sabha on July 11.
Both the Budgets have to be cleared before July-end as the votes-on-account taken before the Lok Sabha elections will expire by then.
Prasad said the decision to bring a Bill to amend the Trai Act was taken at the meeting. "The Ordinance will be made into a law. The Cabinet has approved the shape of the proposed law. We will present the Bill in this session (Budget session) of Parliament," Prasad said.
Before the Ordinance was promulgated, the TRAI Act prohibited its chairman and members from taking up any other job in the central or state governments after demitting office.
To circumvent this section, which would have barred Misra from taking up the assignment of principal secretary to PM, the Modi government promulgated an ordinance amending it.
The Cabinet also approved scrapping of empowered group of ministers (EGoMs) and group of minsters (GoMs), set up by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Modi had on May 31 abolished all the 30 EGoMs and GoMs and told ministries and departments concerned to take decisions on pending matters.
"All the facts related to the GoMs were placed before the Cabinet. Governments used to function on the basis of GoMs and we decided to end these. We confirmed the decision to abolish such EGoMs and GoMs," Prasad said.
The Cabinet gave a nod to the constitution of a supervisory committee on the Mullaperiyar Dam to implement the judgment of the Supreme Court.
Last month, an apex court's bench appointed a three-member committee with chairman of the Central Water Commission as the chairperson and representatives from the States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu to supervise and ensure that the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam was raised up to 142 ft.
The court had declared as unconstitutional the law passed by Kerala in 2006, constituting the Dam Safety Authority to prevent the State from raising the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam from 136 ft to 142 ft. End