The Centre is making all efforts to move the Womens' Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha in the coming winter session, Union Minister V Narayanasamy said.
"The prime minister is likely to convene an all-party meeting (to evolve consensus). We are taking all efforts to bring the bill in the Lok Sabha in the winter session of Parliament," the minister of state for planning and parliamentary affairs told reporters in Chennai.
The bill, providing 33 per cent reservation to women in parliament and state legislatures, was passed by the Rajya Sabha on March 9.
Narayanasamy said there was no fixed time frame to pass a bill in the Lok Sabha after the Upper House had approved it.
Among others, the Foreign Universities Bill and the bill to regulate the private sector in areas like capitation fee, would also be moved in the winter session, he said. To a query on hike of MPs salaries, he said, "It is neither high nor low."
The monthly salary of the MPs was hiked from Rs 16,000 to Rs 50,000 during the monsoon session of Parliament. Slamming the BJP for stalling proceedings in the recently-concluded monsoon session, Narayanasamy said the party was acting like an "enemy" and appealed to its leaders in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha -- Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley -- not to disrupt proceedings.
Issues and differences could be sorted out through talks, he said adding disruptions had caused a loss of 45 hours in the monsoon session. While more than 20 bills being passed in the session, the passage of the controversial Civil Nuclear Liability Bill was the "biggest achievement" of the government, he said.
On the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, he recalled the sops offered by India for rehabilitation of the war-displaced civilians and said External Affairs Minister S M Krishna was scheduled to visit the island nation. He would stress for construction of permanent houses for the Tamils and moving them there before the onset of monsoon, Narayanasamy said.
