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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES - December 2019

Dec 2019

Nov 23, 2020

Kerala Governor Signs Kerala Police Act Amendment Ordinance

Amid resistance from the opposition parties, Kerala Governor Arif Muhammad Khan signed the Kerala Police Act amendment ordinance.
The law aims to stop bullying, insulting or disgracing individuals through any content and circulating the same through any communication medium.
The offenders will be awarded a sentence of five years/penalty of Rs. 10,000 or both.

Nov 21, 2020

Labour Ministry Proposes 12 Working Hours

The Labour Ministry has proposed maximum 12 working hours in a day, including intervals under the draft rules on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code 2020 passed earlier this year by Parliament.
However, the weekly working hours limit has been fixed at 48 hours (six days X eight hours, with one weekly off) under the draft rules notified on November 19, 2020.
This has drawn flak from many corners because the OSH Code passed by Parliament provides for maximum eight working hours in a day.
The necessary provision in the draft rules so that all workers working beyond eight hours get overtime.
As per draft rules on OSH Code, in calculating overtime on any day, a fraction of an hour between 15-30 minutes shall be counted as 30 minutes.
At present, less than 30 minutes is not counted as overtime in the existing legal framework.

Nov 20, 2020

Wind-Solar Hybrid Parks Scheme

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has proposed a new scheme to develop wind-solar hybrid parks. The scheme aims to address the key issues faced by renewable energy projects.
The wind-solar hybrid parks will be a concentrated zone of power projects. It will provide an area with the required infrastructure. The sites to develop the wind-solar hybrid parks are to be selected by National Institute of wind Energy.
The capacity of each park is expected to be 500 MW and more. However, there are no restrictions to develop lower capacity park. In case of lower capacity parks, the capacity of the park should not be less than 50 MW.

Nov 18, 2020

Madhya Pradesh to Bring Dharma Swatantrya (Religious Freedom) Bill 2020

The state governments in Madhya Pradesh and Haryana are taking steps to check the rising incidents of inter-religious marriages. While the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led government in MP is mulling over introducing the Dharma Swatantrya (Religious Freedom) Bill 2020 in the next session of the state Assembly, the Manohar Lal Khattar cabinet in Haryana is going to set up a committee to draft a 'strict' law against such cases.
Madhya Pradesh's Home Minister Narottam Mishra said that his government is working on bringing the 'Dharma Swatantrya Bill' 2020 in the state assembly with a provision for five-year rigorous imprisonment for luring a person through fraud and forcing marriage by religious conversion by making it a cognisable and non-bailable offence.

Nov 16, 2020

Jharkhand Assembly Passes Resolution on Sarna Code

The Jharkhand assembly has unanimously passed a resolution seeking the inclusion of Sarna as a separate religion in census, 2021. Chief minister Hemant Soren said the resolution, passed during a special one-day assembly session, will now be sent to the centre for approval.
The opposition parties gave a proposal demanding a discussion on the resolution, which speaker Rabindra Nath Mahato accepted. BJP legislators proposed an amendment to the resolution seeking removal of the oblique from 'tribal/Sarna' word in it.
Soren said his government is sensitive to people's sentiments and accepted the amendment, after which all the parties supported the resolution.

Ministry of Finance Approved Creation of National Database of Unorganised Sector

The Finance Ministry has given its approval for the creation of national database for unorganised sector. It will be the first-ever national database for migrant workers. The aim of creating national database is to give a proper platform to migrant labourers. It will also make it easy for the government to implement programmes for the unorganised sector.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment has said that the National Database of Unorganised Workers will maintain the database of the workers using their 12-digit Aadhaar number.
The database will enroll all unorganized workers including migrant labourers.

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