Three bills passed on first day of budget session

The House also passed the Delhi Legislative Assembly Members (Prevention of Disqualification) (Amendment) Bill by voice vote.

Tabling the NSIT bill, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said if we work hard, city’s institutes can be made world class. Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology will soon be known as Delhi Netaji Subhas University of Technology once <g data-gr-id="44">government</g> issues a gazette notification in this regard.

“Making NSIT a university will cater to thousands of students. At present, there are 3,400 seats in NSIT, but once it becomes <g data-gr-id="38">university</g>, there will be 12,000 seats in 4-5 years,” Sisodia said.

The Deputy CM said he wished to see Delhi’s institutes being in the list of world top’s 100 ones, and thereafter, in the top 10.

The Assembly also passed the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement (Amendment) Bill which will facilitate rehabilitation of those slum dwellers in colonies which have come up between March 31, <g data-gr-id="48">2002</g> and January 1, 2006.

“All political parties used to make promises to slum residents before every election, but nothing happened. We are not like them. We will not let <g data-gr-id="51">jhuggis</g> <g data-gr-id="42">to be</g> demolished in Delhi now,” Sisodia said after tabling the bill.

He said that while constructing high-rise buildings, <g data-gr-id="36">city-planners</g> did not think about newspaper vendors, washermen and others.

The amendment of Section 2 (g) of DUSIB Act will bring in conformity with Section 3 (2) of Delhi Special Laws to facilitate rehabilitation of slums. The Assembly also passed Delhi Legislative Assembly Members (Prevention of Disqualification) <g data-gr-id="41">(Amendment)</g> Bill.

This bill seeks to insert the word ‘MINISTER’ after the words CHIEF MINISTER in the Delhi Members of Legislative Assembly (Removal of the Disqualification) Act, 1997.

The 1997 Act was enacted as a law in order to exempt certain offices from being disqualified for being chosen as, or for being, a Member of Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

“In addition to the office of the parliamentary secretary to the Chief Minister mentioned at serial number 7 in the schedule appended to the 1997 Act, the office of the parliamentary secretary to the minister is also now being included in this Act through the proposed amendment.

“This amendment bill does not involve any financial expenditure or financial assistance of any sort from anywhere,” said a senior government official.