MEW DELHI: Describing the just concluded Monsoon session of Parliament as a highly productive one, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said it will always be remembered as a session for social justice and youth welfare.
Speaking in the weekly radio ‘Mann ki baat’ programme, the Prime Minister said that this monsoon session of Parliament will always be remembered as a session for social justice and youth welfare.
“The monsoon session of Parliament ended just a few days back. The productivity of Lok Sabha remained 118 per cent and that of Rajya Sabha was 74 per cent.
All the members rose above party interests to make the Monsoon session most productive and this is why Lok Sabha passed 21 bills and in Rajya Sabha fourteen bills were passed.
This Monsoon session of Parliament will always be remembered as a session for social justice and youth welfare. A number of important bills beneficial to the youth and the backward classes were passed during this session” , the PM said adding that a bill to give constitutional status to the OBC commission, a bill to strengthen the SC/ST act and the Criminal Act Amendment Bill, which provides for strictest punishment for crime against women, were passed during the session.
”A demand to constitute an OBC Commission similar to SC/ST commission was long pending for decades. The country fulfilled its resolve this time to make an OBC Commission and also granted it Constitutional powers.
This step will prove to be the one to move forward our march towards achieving the goal of social justice. An amendment bill to secure the rights of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes also were passed in this session.
This Act will give more security to the interests of SC and ST communities. This will also forbid criminals from indulging in atrocities and will instill confidence among the Dalit communities,” the PM said.
” No civil society can tolerate any kind of injustice towards the woman-power of the country. The nation will not tolerate those committing rapes. With this point in view Parliament has made a provision of strictest punishment by passing the Criminal Act Amendment Bill.
Those guilty of rape will get a minimum sentence of ten years and those found guilty of raping girls below the age of 12 years will be awarded the death sentence. Recently, you might have read in newspapers, that a court in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, after a brief hearing of two months, pronounced the death sentence on two criminals found guilty of raping a minor girl.
Earlier, a court in Katni in Madhya Pradesh awarded the death sentence to the guilty after a hearing of just five days. Courts in Rajasthan have also taken similar quick decisions.
This Act will play an effective role in curbing crimes against women and girls. Economic growth will be incomplete without a social transformation,” the PM said.
Thanking all the MPs for ensuring a productive Monsoon session, the PM said, ”When we move ahead in the national interest, a change in the lives of the poor, the backward, the exploited and the deprived ones can also be brought about. In the Monsoon session, this time, everyone jointly presented an ideal approach. Today, I publicly express my heartfelt gratitude to all MP’s.”
Lamenting that the Triple Talaq Bill could not be passed in the Rajya Sabha, the PM said that the whole country stands by Muslim women to provide them social justice.
”The Triple Talaq Bill has been passed by the Lok Sabha although it could not be passed in the Rajya Sabha, I assure the Muslim women that the whole country stands by them to provide them social justice,” he said.
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