Arunachal Pradesh Assembly passes two important Bills

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Itanagar: The Arunachal Pradesh Assembly on Wednesday passed two amendment Bills, including one seeking to transfer civil suits pending in the courts of Deputy Commissioners to other courts.

The second Bill proposes to make changes in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) according to amendments made in the Central law concerned.

Chief Minister Pema Khandu moved The Arunachal Pradesh Civil Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which seeks to make provisions for transferring civil suits pending in the courts of Deputy Commissioners to those of junior and senior division civil judges, and district and additional district judges, as per their territorial and pecuniary jurisdiction.

The proposed legislation will lessen the workload of regular courts, the statement of the Bill said.

The Arunachal Pradesh Goods and Service Tax (1st Amendment) Bill, 2022 was tabled by Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein, who also holds the Tax, Excise and Narcotics portfolio.

The Arunachal Pradesh Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 was enacted with a view to making a provision for levy and collection of tax on intra-State supply of goods or services or both by the State Government.

As the Centre has amended the Central GST Act, the State needs to do the same and that is why the Bill has been brought, according to a statement.

A CORRESPONDENT ADDS: Education Minister Taba Tedir on Wednesday informed the House that there is shortage of teachers at PGT and TGT level in the State and the department has submitted proposal for recruitment of 94 PGTs and 367 TGTs to the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC).

Replying to a starred question of Borduria-Bogapani MLA Wanglin Lowangdong on transfer of TGT and PGT from schools of the Tirap district without relievers, Tedir said that 11 teachers from the district were transferred subject to joining of relievers without which they will not be released from duties, adding that relievers for the transferred teachers can be posted only after recruitment is done by the APPSC to deal with the shortage problem.

To another supplementary query raised by Kanubari MLA Gabriel D Wangsu seeking mechanism for rationalization of teacher's transfer and posting, the Minister said that transfer and posting policy 2020 will be implemented in the coming days and disclosed that for effective functioning a software has been developed and the teachers have been directed to upload their bio data.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Pema Khandu assured Seppa East MLA Tapuk Taku in the Assembly that the Government will post administrative officers for Seppa at the earliest. The CM's assurance came in respond to the MLA's query on non-posting of ADC/EAC at Seppa in the East Kameng district.

Khandu, however, informed that due to shortage of officers in the administrative grade, no officer could be posted as ADC/ EAC in Seppa headquarter since August, 2021, adding that the Government is in process of posting administrative officers where it is needed.

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