The winter session of Parliament will start from December 1 and continue till December 19. During this period, there is a plan to present 10 bills in a total of 15 working days. Let us tell you that the government’s agenda includes many important proposals such as the Atomic Energy Bill, 2025, which will make provisions for opening up the civil nuclear sector to private companies. Indian Higher Education Commission Bill which will pave the way for making universities and institutions more autonomous and excellent. National Highways (Amendment) Bill which will make the process of land acquisition faster and transparent. Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025 which will amend the Companies Act and LLP Act to further ease the ‘Ease of Doing Business’. The Securities Market Code (SMC) Bill, 2025 will create a uniform law by unifying the SEBI Act, Depositories Act and Securities Contract Acts. Arbitration and Conciliation Act amendment which will bring transparency in the legal process. Apart from this, two pending bills of the first session and the first supplementary budget of the year will also be placed for consideration. If seen, this agenda is definitely a step towards economic and administrative reforms. But the question is, will Parliament be limited to only corporate, trade and institutional reforms?
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Parliament is the heart of democracy—where the most pressing issues of the country’s life should be debated. But unfortunately, the same things appear on the agenda in every session – industry, investment, acquisitions, education infrastructure. In such a situation, issues related to the social soul of the country are left behind again and again. The crises the country is facing today are not just economic, but also cultural, demographic and moral. Conversion has now taken the form of an organized network – incidents of religious conversion targeting the poor, backward and rural classes are increasing. Crimes like love jihad and drug jihad have become new ways to trap youth and especially girls. Cases of missing girls, trafficking and forced marriage have spread beyond state borders. No concrete policy has been made so far on population control law, whereas this problem will directly affect the stability of the coming decades. National level legislative intervention on all this is essential. But every time these issues are limited to election speeches only and do not come in the agenda of Parliament. Now the time has come that the Parliament of the country should make laws in the direction of economic reforms as well as social reforms. If seen, all these are national needs, not alternative agendas.
However, new bills in the winter session of Parliament are welcome, but if Parliament remains silent on the real pain of the people and questions of social imbalance, then these bills will only add to the development figures and not in public interest.