புதிய செய்தி :-
காபினெட் கூட்டத்தில் புதிய திருத்தங்களுடன் ஒப்புதல் பெறப்படும் என்று அறிவிக்கப் பட்ட PFRDA மசோதா , திரிணமூல் காங்கிரஸின் எதிர்ப்பு காரணமாக விவாதிக்கப் படாமலேயே மீண்டும் ஒத்திவைக்கப் பட்டது. விபரமான செய்திக்கு கீழே பார்க்கவும் :-
Top sources in the government told HT
that railway minister Mukul Roy shot a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday evening flagging the
“concerns” of his party chief and West Bengal chief minister Banerjee over the
pension bill.
In December 2011, a similar letter from Mamata
Banerjee, then railway minister, forced the government to drop the item from its
cabinet agenda.
The amendments to the long-pending key reforms
bill aims to retain the cap on foreign direct investment (FDI) at 26%. It allows
the pensioner to demand minimum assured returns and withdraw from his
account.
According to sources, in the cabinet meet,
cabinet secretary Ajit Seth merely said “item number three is deferred” even as
some ministers looked at each other and the finance minister remained
silent.
Railway minister Roy's letter mentioned that
Banerjee feels the bill should not be pushed without “a broad-based political
consensus”.
Roy’s letter mentioned that the manifesto of
the Trinamool Congress for the 2011 assembly election opposes such reforms that
may jeopardize the interest of common people.
It also pointed out that last year, when the
bill was discussed in the parliamentary standing committee on finance, there was
no Trinamool representative in the panel. (Sudip Bandopadhyay was initially a
member of the standing committee but he left it after becoming the junior
minister for health).
The finance ministry moved to put amendments to
the pension bill after partymen raised a stink over the United Progressive
Alliance’s (UPA) alleged policy paralysis at the Congress working committee
meeting on Monday.
The UPA — especially after the downgrading of
India’s credit ratings and the nine-year low gross domestic product growth rate
— revived the cabinet note prepared in February.
The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development
Authority (PRFDA) Bill, 2011, had been stuck in Parliament since last year, even
as the BJP has offered its support to the bill.
courtesy: Hindustan times.
