Lok Sabha passes Bill to add more UP communities in Scheduled Tribe list

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Friday handed the Structure (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Order (2nd Modification) Invoice, 2022, to deliver sure tribal communities resembling Gond, Dhuriya, Nayak, Ojha, Pathari and Rajgond – residing within the Sant Kabir Nagar, Kushinagar, Chanduali, and Sant Ravidas Nagar districts – into the checklist of the STs in UP.

The BJP had made a pre-poll promise to make such legislations to those communities who’ve been in search of their inclusion within the ST checklist.

Moreover, the federal government has launched within the Lok Sabha a invoice to increase India’s home legal guidelines to supply a regulatory framework for analysis actions within the Antarctic and have its personal nationwide measures to guard the Antarctic surroundings and the dependent ecosystem.

‘The Indian Antarctic Invoice 2022’, which was launched within the Lok Sabha on Friday, was opposed by All India Trinamool Congress member Saugata Roy.Roy requested how Parliament might legislate on issues associated to “Antarctic, which is a no man’s land”.

Responding to this, the Union Minister for Earth Science and Expertise Jitendra Singh mentioned Parliament had the correct to legislate on the matter. He identified that the proposed laws was additionally aimed toward upholding the Indian obligations to the worldwide Antarctic Treaty, the Conference on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Residing Sources and the Protocol on Environmental Safety to the Antarctic Treaty.