Monsoon session will always be remembered as a session for social justice & youth welfare: PM

New Delhi, Aug 26:  Describing the just concluded Monsoon session of Parliament as a highly productive one, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said it will always be remembered as a session for social justice and youth welfare.
Speaking in the weekly radio ‘Mann ki baat’ programme, the Prime Minister said that this monsoon session of Parliament will always be remembered as a session for social justice and youth welfare.
“The monsoon session of Parliament ended just a few days back. The productivity of Lok Sabha remained 118 per cent and that of Rajya Sabha was 74 per cent. All the members rose above party interests to make the Monsoon session most productive and this is why Lok Sabha passed 21 bills and in Rajya Sabha fourteen bills were passed. This Monsoon session of Parliament will always be remembered as a session for social justice and youth welfare. A number of important bills beneficial to the youth and the backward classes were passed during this session’ , the PM said adding that a bill to give constitutional status to the OBC commission, a bill to strengthen the SC/ST act and the Criminal Act Amendment Bill, which provides for strictest punishment for crime against women,
were passed during the session. UNI