Bhartruhari & Baijayant in 14-member Business Advisory Committee of Lok Sabha

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Two BJP MPs from Odisha have been included in the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) set up by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for the new session.

Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab and Kendrapada MP Baijayant Panda are among the 14 nominated Parliamentarian from various parties in BAC, which decides the parliamentary agenda.

Besides Bhartruhari and Baijayant, the committee chaired by the Speaker has Sudip Bandyopadhyay (TMC), P P Chaudhary (BJP), Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu (TDP), Nishikant Dubey (BJP), Gaurav Gogoi (Congress), Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP), Dileshwar Kamait (JD-U), Dayanidhi Maran (DMK), Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena-UBT), Kodikunnil Suresh (Congress), Anurag Thakur (BJP) and Lalji Verma (SP) as members.

The Centre will be introducing six new bills, including one to amend the disaster management law, during the upcoming monsoon session from July 22 to August 12. Besides the Finance Bill, the government will present the Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024, to replace the Aircraft Act of 1934 to provide enabling provisions for ease of doing business in the civil aviation sector.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is slated to introduce the Budget on July 23.