Parl panel on Land Bill likely to seek one week extension to complete report

The Parliamentary panel examining the contentious land acquisition bill is likely to seek a week’s extension to complete its task as it may find it difficult to prepare its report before July 21, when the Monsoon session starts.

The chairman of Joint Committee of Parliament on the land bill <g data-gr-id="18">S S</g> Ahluwalia is expected to write to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for the extension to finish the task, three members who attended Monday’s meeting said.

The committee has been mandated to submit its report on day one of the first week of the Monsoon session. But the extension could be sought to table the report on first day of second week of the session, beginning on July 21, they said.

As the panel was set up by a motion of the House, Ahluwalia may have to seek the extension by moving a motion in this regard in the Lok Sabha. In the last Lok Sabha, P C Chacko, chairman of JPC on 2G scam, had to seek the permission of the Lok Sabha to extend the timeline of the panel to table its report.