{"id":38872,"date":"2021-03-17T05:12:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T05:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=38872"},"modified":"2021-03-17T05:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T05:12:46","slug":"to-define-delhi-l-gs-powers-bill-moved-in-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/to-define-delhi-l-gs-powers-bill-moved-in-lok-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"To define Delhi L-G\u2019s powers, bill moved in Lok Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) moved a bill in the Lok Sabha where it proposed that \u201cgovernment\u201d in the national capital territory of Delhi means the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. The Bill gives discretionary powers to the L-G of Delhi even in matters where the Legislative Assembly of Delhi is empowered to make laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021 proposes to amend Sections 21, 24, 33 and 44 of the 1991 Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Section 44 of the 1991 Act says that all executive actions of the L-G, whether taken on the advice of his Ministers or otherwise, shall be expressed to be taken in the name of the L-G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bill gives discretionary powers to the L-G even in matters where the Legislative Assembly of Delhi is empowered to make laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed legislation also seeks to ensure that the L-G is \u201cnecessarily granted an opportunity\u201d to give her or his opinion before any decision taken by the Council of Ministers (or the Delhi Cabinet) is implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) moved a bill in the Lok Sabha where it proposed that \u201cgovernment\u201d in the national capital territory of Delhi means the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. The Bill gives discretionary powers to the L-G of Delhi even in matters where the Legislative Assembly of Delhi is empowered to make laws. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":38873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[1275],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-38872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2021","tag-indian-polity-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38874,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38872\/revisions\/38874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38872"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=38872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}