Ordinance likely to fast-track Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill

Planners in the government also expect disruptions due to the Punjab National Bank scam and the arrest of former finance minister P Chidambaram's son

The government plans to issue the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill as an ordinance before the monsoon session of Parliament.

If it is not passed in the Budget session, a senior government official told Business Standard, the ordinance will be then sought to be formalised as an Act in the monsoon session.

The second half of the Budget session starts from Monday and is expected to go on till April 6. On the agenda are the Finance Bill, the triple talaq Bill, which is stuck in the Rajya Sabha, and the one to give constitutional status to the National Commission on Backward Classes.

Planners