Four Bills, including one on manuscripts, tabled in Karnataka Assembly

The Karnataka Legislative Assembly connected Tuesday saw tabling of 4 Bills, including the Karnataka Jnana Bhandar Manuscripts and Digitisation Bill that seeks to supply for the survey, documentation, conservation, digitisation, research, publication, and nationalist entree of manuscripts successful the State.

Tabled by Law and Parliamentary and Tourism Minister H.K. Patil, the Bill seeks to found the Karnataka Manuscripts Authority to execute these objectives.

The Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill that seeks to guarantee that the secrecy of the ballot is maintained and support voters from coercion, intimidation, and undue power successful the aftermath of the government’s determination to spell for ballot papers successful the elections to section bodies alternatively of EVMs was besides tabled. The Bill seeks to guarantee that the elections are conducted successful a free, fair, and transparent manner, reflecting the antiauthoritarian volition of the radical nether Article 326 of the Constitution.

The Karnataka Police (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to see the reasons specified arsenic misconduct and dereliction of work arsenic reasons that could travel successful the mode of ensuring a minimum tenure of 2 years for constabulary officers, was besides tabled.

The Karnataka Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill that seeks to supply allowances and different work conditions to Lokayukta connected a par with those of the judges of Supreme Court oregon the main justness of the High Court was tabled successful the Assembly.