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

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'.

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’.

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’.

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)”.

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)`.

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.

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”.

(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 Draft Reports:

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'.

Briefing by the Representatives of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (Department of Fisheries) in connection with Examination of the Subject Employment Generation and Revenue Earning Potential of Fisheries Sector.

(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’

Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Jal Shakti (Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation) on the subject “Flood Management in the country with special reference to States of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal”.

Consideration and Adoption of following draft Reports of the Committee: (i) Draft 14th Report on Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the Tenth Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on the subject, PM Street Vendor’s Atma Nirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi). (ii) Draft 15th Report on Action Taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the Twelfth Report (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on the Demands for Grants (2022-23) of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.