This bill along with Prohibition of Unfair Practices Bill and National Accreditation Bill are listed in the Winter Session for consideration and passage. No new bills are slated for introduction.
The Educational Tribunals Bill, which seeks to establish educational tribunals at the national and state levels to expedite adjudication of disputes in the education sector, is stuck on the Upper House for over a couple of years.
It had to be deferred after an uproar in the House over lack of consultation over it. Former HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, has had to face embarrassing situations in Parliament when his own party members led an attack against the bill. Though he sought to reach out to the Opposition, little could be achieved.
The Ministry has subsequently delinked this bill with the other two above-said bills. HRD Ministry officials said Unfair Practices Bill will be "amended so that adjudication of penalties is delinked from the Educational Tribunal Bill, 2010, and restored to civil courts".
The Unfair Practices Bill, introduced in Lok Sabha, specifies guidelines under which unfair practices such as charging capitation fees, demanding donations, questionable admission processes etc could be treated as civil or criminal offences.
Shortly after assuming office, New HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju had said he would reach out to "everybody" to build a consensus on passage of pending bills.
Noting that his predecessor Sibal had initiated "good work" by bringing several reformative measures and introducing key legislations in Parliament, he said "its time for me and my colleagues to take everybody onboard on the good intentions behind this initiatives and to able to get their help in taking these bills through."
"We would tell them that the credit belongs to all of us and not the government alone... It is a collective credit to leadership across party lines and that would be my approach to convince my colleague," he had said.
