The Aryavarth Express
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on Monday move the Appropriation (No. 4) Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha, seeking authorisation for the payment and appropriation of additional sums from the Consolidated Fund of India to meet expenditure requirements for the financial year 2025–26.
The Lok Sabha is scheduled to convene at 11 am with a packed agenda that includes Question Hour, laying of papers, committee reports, ministerial statements and key legislative business. According to the List of Business, the Finance Minister will seek the House’s permission to introduce the Appropriation Bill, which relates to supplementary financial requirements for various government services during the current financial year. She will also move that the Bill be taken into consideration and passed.
The House will begin the day with obituary references for former Members of Parliament Subhash Ahuja (Sixth Lok Sabha), Prof. Salahuddin (Eighth Lok Sabha) and Bal Krishna Chauhan (Thirteenth Lok Sabha). This will be followed by Question Hour.
Several Union Ministers will lay official papers on the Table of the House. These include Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (Culture), Jayant Chaudhary (Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; Education), Pankaj Chaudhary (Finance), Shobha Karandlaje (Labour and Employment), Kirti Vardhan Singh (Environment, Forest and Climate Change), Suresh Gopi (Tourism), Sukanta Majumdar (Education) and Harsh Malhotra (Corporate Affairs).
The Lok Sabha will also witness the presentation of reports of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for 2025–26. KC Venugopal and Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy will present the Thirty-fourth Report on “Irregular grant of incentives and allowances” and the Thirty-fifth Report on action taken by the government on recommendations related to the National Social Assistance Programme. Both reports will be tabled in Hindi and English.
Under committee-related business, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi and Malvika Devi will lay the Final Action Taken Statement of the Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. The statement pertains to government action on recommendations in the Tenth Report (Eighteenth Lok Sabha) concerning Demands for Grants (2024–25) of the Department of Food and Public Distribution.
In the Statements by Ministers segment, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary will make four statements on the status of implementation of recommendations of various Standing Committees on Finance. These relate to Demands for Grants for 2024–25 and 2025–26, cyber security and white-collar crimes, and the Department of Financial Services. All statements will be presented in both Hindi and English.
Tourism Minister Suresh Gopi will also make a statement on the implementation status of recommendations contained in the 379th Report of the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture regarding Demands for Grants (2025–26) for the Ministry of Tourism.
The day’s agenda further includes Matters under Rule 377, followed by discussion and voting on the Supplementary Demands for Grants—First Batch for 2025–26, and continued consideration of cut motions moved on December 12, 2025.
