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Lok Sabha passes chemical weapons, AIIMS bills
Thursday August 30, 2012 05:27:22 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Lok
Sabha Thursday passed a bill for regulating chemical weapons in
accordance with international convention and another to set up
more AIIMS-like institutes amidst opposition din demanding prime
minister's resignation.
As BJP and its allies raised slogans, the Chemical Weapons
Convention (Amendment) Bill, 2012, and All India Institute of
Medical Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2012, were passed by voice
vote.
The AIIMS bill will replace an ordinance which allowed the six
AIIMS-like institutes to become operational from Sep 15.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (Amendment) Bill seeks to amend
the Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000, which was enacted to
give effect to the convention on the Prohibition of the
development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons
and on their destruction.
India had signed the convention Jan 14, 1993.
The passing of the two bills, despite the BJP's attempts to
disrupt parliament proceedings for the seventh day in a row over
the official auditor's report on coal block allocations, shows the
government's mind to get its legislative business conducted before
the monsoon session ends Sep 7.
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