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Report on Nanavati panel to be tabled

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NEW DELHI: :The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the Action Taken Report on the recommendations of the Nanavati Commission, which probed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. This paves the way for tabling the report in Parliament. The deadline for placing the report expires on Monday.

Announcing the Cabinet decision, Union Minister and Cabinet spokesperson, Jaipal Reddy, did not say when the report would be tabled — Friday or Monday. "It will be placed before the deadline expires. Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, will have to get the clearance from Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee."

The Cabinet also cleared a set of eight Bills, which would be introduced in Parliament during the current session. They include one to amend the Bill on protection of women from domestic violence and another to provide for greater inheritance rights for women under the Hindu Succession Act.

Other Bills relate to the enactment of integrated food laws for better food safety and standards; amendment to the Railways Act for setting up an authority for the development of Railway land; and amendment to the Banking Companies Act to increase the number of whole-time directors from two to four, restrict the number of shareholder directors to three, set up a restructuring authority for potentially weak banks and to enable more flexibility to the bank boards and improve their corporate governance.

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