Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will move the Appropriation (No. 4) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha on Monday, seeking authorisation for the payment and appropriation of certain additional sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of India to meet the expenditure requirements of the financial year 2025-26.
The Lok Sabha will convene at 11 am with a comprehensive agenda that includes questions, laying of papers, committee reports, and significant legislative business.
According to the List of Business, the Finance Minister will seek the House's leave to introduce the bill, which pertains to approving supplementary financial requirements for various government services during the current financial year, and she will also move that the bill be taken into consideration and passed.
The session will cover obituary references, key committee reports, ministerial statements, Supplementary Demands for Grants for 2025-26, and crucial legislative matters, including the Appropriation (No. 4) Bill, 2025.
The proceedings will commence with obituary references to mark the passing away of former Members of Parliament Subhash Ahuja from the Sixth Lok Sabha, Prof. Salahuddin from the Eighth Lok Sabha, and Bal Krishna Chauhan from the Thirteenth Lok Sabha.
This will be followed by Question Hour, during which questions entered in a separate list will be asked and answers provided.
Under Papers to be Laid on the Table, several Union Ministers are scheduled to place official documents before the House, including Gajendra Singh Shekhawat for the Ministry of Culture, Jayant Chaudhary for the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and the Ministry of Education, Pankaj Chaudhary for the Ministry of Finance, Shobha Karandlaje for the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Kirti Vardhan Singh for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Suresh Gopi for the Ministry of Tourism, Sukanta Majumdar for the Ministry of Education, and Harsh Malhotra for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, with the papers printed on a separate list.
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The House will also witness the presentation of reports of the Public Accounts Committee for 2025-26, where KC Venugopal and Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy will present the Thirty-fourth Report on the subject 'Irregular grant of incentives and allowances' and the Thirty-fifth Report on Action Taken by the Government on the observations and recommendations contained in the PAC's One Hundred and Forty-second Report from the Seventeenth Lok Sabha on the 'National Social Assistance Programme', with both reports presented in Hindi and English.
Under committee-related business, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi and Malvika Devi will lay the Final Action Taken Statement of the Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, pertaining to action taken by the Government on recommendations contained in Chapter I of the Tenth Report from the Eighteenth Lok Sabha, which reviewed action taken on observations and recommendations of the Sixth Report on Demands for Grants for 2024-25 of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, specifically the Department of Food and Public Distribution.
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In the Statements by Ministers segment, Pankaj Chaudhary will make four statements on the status of implementing the recommendations of various Standing Committees on Finance reports, covering Demands for Grants for 2024-25 and 2025-26 related to the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, as well as reports on cyber security and the rising incidence of cyber and white-collar crimes, and Demands for Grants for 2025-26 pertaining to the Department of Financial Services in the Ministry of Finance, with all statements made in Hindi and English.
Additionally, Suresh Gopi will make a statement on the implementation status of recommendations contained in the 379th Report of the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture on Demands for Grants for 2025-26 relating to the Ministry of Tourism.
The agenda will also include matters under Rule 377, followed by further discussion and voting on the Supplementary Demands for Grants - First Batch for 2025-26, and additional consideration of the cut motions moved on December 12.
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