SME Times News Bureau | 04 Jan, 2020
With the first half of the
budget session expected to begin in the last week of January, the
ministries have started asking officials to gear up for response to the
possible questions from members of Parliament (MPs).
"As
Parliament session is expected to start in the last week of this month,
an advisory has been circulated to various sections of the ministry,"
said an official.
A circular issued by Civil Aviation Ministry
advised officials to prepare for "controversies" and questions that
could be raised by the members. The ministry which controls national
carrier Air India and airport agency Airports Authority of India (AAI)
may have to respond to possible queries around privatisation.
While
the government is looking at completing disinvestment of Air India in
the current fiscal, half a dozen AAI airports are to be bid out on PPP
model.
The upcoming session of Parliament is set to be stormy
given the protests in various parts of the country against the new
citizenship law -- Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which grants citizenship
to persecuted minorities in the three neighbouring countries of
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
Moreover, there has also
been hike in the railway passenger fares and cooking gas price and the
Opposition may train their guns at the government.
The Opposition
members could also put heat on the government for consistent decline in
GDP and several macro indicators signalling recovery could still take
some more time.