City sizzles as Met dept extends heatwave alert
After sizzling at the highest day temperatures today, citizens of south Bengal, including Kolkata could face harsher days with the probability of temperature going up in the next few days.
The West Bengal Staff Selection Commission (Repealing) Bill 2019, was passed today in the Assembly after the ruling party secured 96 votes against the Opposition’s 27 after the Bill was put to a division vote on the Opposition’s demand. The Bill was re-tabled in the House today for passage after being kept in abeyance on 29 August, when the Bill was first tabled in the House following the combined Oppositions’ reservation on its “legal sanctity”.
Today the Bill was passed after the state law minister Moloy Ghatak told the House that the legal sanctity of the Bill was not in question and the necessary advisory on the legal implications of the Bill had been obtained from the state Advocate General Mr Kisor Dutta. The leader of the Opposition in the House, Mr Abdul Mannan, had demanded the advocate general’s presence in the House and that the government should seek legal advice to avoid a legal tangle.
The Bill which seeks to revive the West Bengal Staff selection Commission that had been repealed in 2017 after being first introduced by the ruling dispensation in 2011, was aimed to give a fillip to recruitment to a large number of vacancies for non-Public Service Commission posts quickly. But the Opposition sought to defer the Bill on the question that the Bill was not legally tenable since it did not mention the financial memorandum outlining the financial implications involved in it.
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Finally, today the House passed the Bill after the minister of state for health Chandrima Bhattacharya and the state law minister Moloy Ghatak assured the House of its legal sanction and that the necessary advisory from the state advocate general was obtained. But the Opposition who was demanding transparency on the Bill’s financial implications was bent on voting to decide the fate of the Bill. Thereafter the Speaker on the demand of the Opposition, put the Bill to division and it was passed by 96-27 votes.
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