Senate introduces five bills, adopts two resolutions
Pakistan
Senate introduces five bills, adopts two resolutions
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Senate introduced five bills after the session was resumed on Monday.
These include: "The Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (Amendment) Bill, 2022", "The National Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill, 2022", "The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2022", "The Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2022" and "The Provincial Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2022".
The chair referred the bills to the standing committees concerned.
The Senate has adopted a resolution recommending the government to allow public-private partnerships and the private sector to install their own energy parks of solar, wind, and local coal-based in the country with a minimum of thirty megawatts of electricity generation capacity.
The resolution, moved by Taj Haider and Saleem Mandviwalla, also recommended that the said energy parks may be authorised to sell electricity to the consumers on a pre-determined tariff formula and install their own captive transmission and distribution grids for domestic, commercial, and industrial consumers.
This will help end the longstanding electricity crisis and high electricity tariffs in the country, which are causing a heavy burden on domestic, commercial, and industrial consumers.
The Senate has adopted a resolution that the chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee shall be rotated or shared amongst the members of the Senate and National Assembly for its half terms.
The resolution moved by Raza Rabbani and others stated that rotation of Chair of Public Accounts Committee amongst the both Houses of parliament will ensure that no part of the country is left without adequate representation in the state institutions, more so, in the ethnically diversified state like Pakistan.
