Taking a crucial step for two northeastern states, Lok Sabha Monday cleared a bill of setting up a separate cadre of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS) for Manipur and Tripura by bifurcating the existing cadres of these central government services.
According to sources, the lower house of Parliament today passed the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Amendment Bill, 2011 with a voice vote despite pandemonium made by Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) over the issue of PM’s resignation in the house.
The cadres of Indian administrative, police and forest services have been the same for the two states.
The bill was moved for consideration and passing by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in the house earlier.
Speaker Meira Kumar rushed through the business even as the BJP members trooped near her podium and raised slogans in favour of their demand for the prime minister's resignation and condemning the UPA government for corruption.
The bill had been originally introduced in the Lok Sabha by erstwhile home minister P Chidambaram in December 2011. The bill was referred to the parliamentary standing committee on home affairs headed by BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu. The panel returned the legislation back to the house without any amendment on March 28 this year, but recommending that similar separate cadres of central government services be considered for each of the northeastern states.
The bill amends the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, which established a common cadre of the Indian Administrative Service, the Indian Police Service, and the Indian Forest Service for the states of Manipur and Tripura.
--With IANS Inputs--
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