 bill  no 249 of  2018 the  jallianwala  bagh  national  memorial (amendment) bill, 2018 a billfurther to amend the jallianwala bagh national memorial act, 1951be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-ninth year of the republic of india as follows:—short title1 this act may be called the jallianwala bagh national memorial (amendment)act, 2018''(1) the trustees of the jallianwala bagh national memorial shall be the following, namely:––(b) the minister in-charge of culture; (c) the leader of opposition recognised as such in the house of the people or where there is no such leader of opposition, then, the leader of the single largest opposition party in that house;(d) the governor of the state of punjab;5(e) the chief minister of the state of punjab; and (f) three eminent persons to be nominated by the central government"3  for section 5 of the principal act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—substitution of new section for section 5"5 the trustees nominated under clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 4 shall be trustees for a period of five years, and shall be eligible for re-nomination:10term of office of trusteesprovided that the term of office of a trustee nominated under clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 4 may be terminated before the expiry of the period of five years by the central government without assigning any reason" statement of objects and reasonsthe jallianwala bagh national memorial act, 1951 was enacted to provide for the erection and management of a national memorial to perpetuate the memory of those killed or wounded on the 13th day of april, 1919, in jallianwala bagh, amritsar the act provides for a trust for the erection and management of the memorial and also provided for composition of the trust with certain trustees for life2 over a period of time, with the passing away of trustees appointed for life, the situation changed significantly and the government did not have proper representation on the trust therefore with a view to fill up vacancies caused on account of passing away of the trustees for life, the act was amended in the year of 2006, inter alia, to change the composition of the trust, to provide for fixed term of five years for nominated trustee and for account and audit of the trust, etc3 at present, in the composition of the trust, certain inconsistencies have been noticed there is a provision to make a party specific trustee and for the leader of opposition in the lok sabha as one of the trustees the term of nominated trustees is five years and there is no provision in the act to terminate a nominated trustee before the expiry of his term in view of the absence of designated leader of opposition in the lok sabha and a trustee being a party specific, it has been felt necessary to amend the said act to make it apolitical and also to provide for termination of nominated trustees before the expiry of their term4 in view of the above, the jallianwala bagh national memorial (amendment) bill,2018, provides for the following, namely:—(i) to delete "the president of the indian national congress" as a trustee; (ii) to make "the leader of opposition recognised as such in the house of the people or where there is no such leader of opposition, then, the leader of the single largest opposition party in that house" a trustee, in place of  "the leader of opposition in the lok sabha"; and(iii) to confer power upon the central government to terminate the term of a nominated trustee before the expiry of the period of his term without assigning any reason 5 the bill seeks to achieve the above objectsnew delhi;mahesh sharmathe 17th december, 2018 annexure extracts from the jallianwala bagh national memorial act, 1951 (25 of 1951)    4 (1) the trustees of the jallianwala bagh national memorial shall be the following, namely:—trustees of the jallianwala bagh national memorial(a) the prime minister—chairperson, (b) the president of the indian national congress, (c) the minister in-charge of culture, (d) the leader of opposition in the lok sabha, (e) the governor of the state of punjab, (f) the chief minister of the state of punjab, and (g) three eminent persons to be nominated by the central government    5 the trustees nominated under clause (g) of sub-section (1) of section 4 shall be trustees for a period of five years, and shall be eligible for renominationterm of office of nominated trustees     lok  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the jallianwala bagh national memorial act, 1951————(shri mahesh sharma, minister of state for culture; environment, forest and climate change)mgipmrnd—2686ls(s3)—20-12-2018