 bill no 115 of 2009 the  constitution (amendment) bill, 2009 byshri prabodh panda, mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixtieth year of the republic of  india as follows:—short title1 this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2009amendment of article 2532 article 253 of the constitution shall be renumbered as clause (1) of that article, and after clause (1) as so renumbered, the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—soon as may be, but not later than one hundred twenty days of the signing of such treaty, agreement, convention or decision:510provided that if any such treaty, agreement or convention with any other country or countries or any decision made at any international conference, association or other body is signed at a time when the house of the people is dissolved or the dissolution of the house of the people takes place during the period of one hundred twenty days referred to in this clause, and if a resolution approving the treaty, agreement, convention or decision has been passed by the council of states, but no resolution with respect to such treaty, agreement, convention or decision has been passed by the house of the people before the expiration of that period, the treaty, agreement, convention or decision shall be required to be ratified by resolution by the house of the people within a period of thirty days from the date on which the house of the people first sits after its reconstitution" statement  of  objects  and  reasonsparliament is the supreme body in the parliamentary democracy that is established by our constitution parliamentary democracy is functioning successfully in our country since it became a free nation as in the constituent assembly, so also in the parliament, different political thoughts are reflected through its elected memberstherefore, it is quite obvious that views of all the members, belonging to different political parties must be reflected on any important international agreement or treaty that the government enters into with any country or countries the practice of ratification of international treaty or agreement by the parliament is prevalent in many other democracies of the world including the united states and south africathe proposed amendment will provide more transparency into the government's working and it is well known that transparency provides strength to democracy which the constitution of india aims to establish in its fullest meaningthe bill accordingly seeks to amend the constitution annexure extract from the constitution of india      253 notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this chapter, parliament has power to make any law for the whole or any part of the territory of india for implementing any treaty, agreement or convention with any other country or countries or any decision made at any international conference, association or other bodylegislation for giving effect to international agreements      ————a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri prabodh panda, mp)gmgipmrnd—4976ls(s5)—02122009