Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Railways on the subject ‘Railway Land Encroachment and its Financial Implications’

Briefing by the Representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (Department of Agricultural Research and Education) in connection with Examination of the Subject Research and Development in Farm Mechanisation for Small and Marginal Farmers in the Country.

Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Railways on the subject ‘Railway Land Encroachment and its Financial Implications’

To hear the Secretary, Department of Legal Affairs and Chairman, Bar Council of India on the subject 'Strengthening Legal Education in view of Emerging Challenges before the Legal Profession'.

Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Coal on the subject “Import of Coal-Trends and issue of Self-Reliance”.

Consideration and Adoption of the Draft Reports on the following Subject: i) Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY); and ii) Development of Manmade Fibre followed by Oral Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises on the Subject : National Policy on Child Labour - An Assessment.

Oral Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs on the Subject : National Policy on Child Labour - An Assessment.

To hear the views of domain experts and the Ministry of Home Affairs on the subject ‘Prison- Conditions, Infrastructure and Reforms’

To consider and adopt draft 137th and 138th Reports on the subject "Vaccine Development, Distribution Management and Mitigation of Pandemic Covid-19" and "Medical Devices: Regulations and Control respectively.

(A) Consideration and Adoption of following Draft Reports: (i) Draft Action Taken Report on Action Taken by the Government on Observations/ Recommendations contained in the Twenty Ninth Report on the Subject "Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana An Evaluation" pertaining to Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare) ; and (ii) Draft Action Taken Report on Action Taken by the Government on Observations/ Recommendations contained in the Forty first Report on "Demands for Grants (2022 23)" pertaining to Ministry of Food Processing Industries. (B) Briefing by the Representatives of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries in connection with Examination of the Subject "Scheme for Creation/Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacities An Evaluation".

(i) Presentation by the Secretariat on the agenda item for discussion. (ii) Briefing by the representatives of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) in connection with examination of the subject ‘Review of Performance of Petroleum & Natural Gas Sector CPSUs’.

To consider and adopt the draft Report on 'Review of Guardianship and Adoption Laws' followed by presentation of Secretary, Legislative Department on the subject ' Review of Personal Laws'.

(1) To consider and adopt the following reports:- (i) Draft ATR on the recommendations contained in the Tenth Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on ‘Demands for Grants (2022-23)’; and (ii) Draft ATR on the recommendations contained in the Eleventh Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on the subject ‘National Gas Grid Including PNG and CNG’; and (2) To take oral evidence of representatives of the Ministry of P&NG, Ministry of Finance (Deptt. of Financial Services and Deptt. of Revenue), Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers (Deptt. of Fertilizers), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare) and Ministry of New & Renewable Energy in connection with examination of the subject "Review of Implementation of CBG (SATAT)”.

Deliberations of the Committee on the subject ‘Anti-Competitive Practices by Big Tech Companies’.

(i) Consideration and adoption of draft Action Taken Reports of the Committee. (ii) Oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (Department of Fertilizers), the representatives of the Ministry of Civil Aviation (with reference to agricultural drones) and prominent environmentalists as well as farmers on ‘Nano-fertilizers for sustainable crop production and maintaining soil health’.

Consideration and adoption of draft Report on Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations of the Committee contained in their 8th Report on “Passenger Reservation System of Indian Railways”.

1. Further oral evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on the subject “Non-utilisation of Solar Thermal Power Plant” based on Para 9.1 of the C&AG Report No.2 of 2018. 2. Consideration and adoption of Draft Reports.

(i) 1600 hours to 1630 hours-Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Communications (Department of Telecommunications) on the subject Review of functioning of Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (ii)1630 hours onwards-Briefing by the representatives of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on the subject Inter-sectoral review of challenges of emerging and converging technologies, entities and practices.

Consideration and Adoption of the following Draft Reports on: i) Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/ Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Sixteenth Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on `Social Security and Welfare Measures for Inter-State Migrant Workers`; and ii) Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/ Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Thirty-Third Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on `Implementation of National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS)/ National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS)`.

(i)Consideration and adoption of the draft Reports (ii) Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Heavy industries on ‘Evaluation of Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy’