India makes sweeping changes in ministries from aviation and telecom to parliamentary affairs
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Umang Narula as the parliamentary affairs, according to a government statement. Narula will be replacing Gudey Srinivas, who will move to take up the role of secretary at National Commission for Scheduled Castes under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowement.
This comes after the government has called for a special session of Parliament for five days starting September 18.
However, no official announcement has been made regarding the agenda of the session which will be held days after the G20 Summit in the national capital, Delhi, on September 8 to 10, 2023.
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Speculations are rife though that the Narendra Modi government may bring 'One Nation, One Election' Bill in the special Parliament session. This, as the name suggests, means simultaneous state and general elections.
This needs a constitutional amendment for which the lawmakers need to meet in a parliament session.
India's Lok Sabha elections are scheduled next year.
Meanwhile, India has also appointed Vumlunmang Vualnam as the secretary of civil aviation ministry and he replaced Rajiv Bansal upon his superannuation on Aug 31. Vualnam was working as an additional secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs under the Ministry of Finance.
Chanchal Kumar, who is an Officer on Special Duty in the civil aviaiton ministry, was earlier supposed to replace Bansal.
However, Kumar will now move to the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region as a secretary.
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