The Plachimada Tribunal Bill, which has been returned without Presidential assent, is to be reintroduced in the Assembly after making necessary changes.
Disclosing this at a press conference here on Wednesday on the eve of the fourth session of the 14th Kerala Assembly, Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan said discussions had been held with the government and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to reintroduce the Bill with changes.
“The House has the right to reintroduce the same if it has been returned by the Centre without giving assent to it,” he said, replying to queries.
The Plachimada Coca Cola Victims Relief and Compensation Claims Special Tribunal Bill, 2011, which proposed to establish a tribunal to try all disputes for compensation and secure it from Coco Cola Company, was passed unanimously by the Assembly on February 24, 2011.
Efforts are on to make the Assembly paperless, he said, adding a software of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) would be used for the initiative. It would be on the lines of the one introduced in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly.
The Speaker said a series of seminars on various aspects of democracy had been planned as part of the diamond jubilee of the Assembly. CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury would deliver the first lecture on ‘Federalism-possibilities and challenges’ on March 7.
Union Minister for Finance Arun Jaitley and former Union Ministers Kapil Sibal and Jairam Ramesh would fly down to the capital in connection with the lecture series in the subsequent months. Seminars would also be held in 10 districts of the State.
To involve students in the democratic process and familiarise them the Constitution, a group of cadets would be formed on the campuses on the lines of the student police cadet.
