 bill no  138  of  2017 the persons living below poverty line (reservation of vacancies in posts and services) bill, 2017 by shri vishnu dayal ram, mp a billto provide for reservation of vacancies in posts and services in establishments for persons living below poverty line and for matters connected therewithbe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-eighth  year of the republic of india as follows:—short title and extent1 (1) this act may be called the persons living below poverty line (reservation ofvacancies in posts and services) act, 2017(2) it extends to the whole of indiadefinitions52 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "establishment" means an establishment which is owned, established,controlled, managed or financed by the government and includes—(i) a ministry or department or subordinate office or attached office of the government;(ii) a public sector undertaking or statutory authority constituted under any central act;5(iii) a corporation in which not less than fifty-one per cent of the paid-upshare capital is held by the government;(iv) a university established by a central act and its affiliated colleges,including medical and engineering colleges and institutions;10(v) a primary or secondary school or any other educational institution,which is wholly owned by the government or receives grant or aid from the government;18 of 2013(vi) a government company as defined under  clause (45) of section 2 of the companies act, 2013; and15(vii) an autonomous body, organisation or institution receiving grant or aid from the consolidated fund of india; (b) "government" means the central government; (c) "persons living below poverty line" means such persons who according to norms fixed by the central government from time to time are deemed to be persons living below poverty line; and(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act203 (1) there shall be reserved such percentage of posts, not below ten per cent of total posts in every establishment, for persons living below the poverty line for appointment in civil services by direct recruitmentreservation of posts in establishments for persons living below poverty line25(2) the vacancies reserved for the persons living below poverty line under subsection (1) shall be filled in such manner as may be prescribed(3) the vacancies reserved for persons living below poverty line during a calendar year and not filled in that year shall be carried forward to the next calendar year304 every appointing authority shall maintain such documents and records, and furnishevery year a report on the appointments by direct recruitment of persons living below poverty line, in such manner and at such time, as may be prescribedmaintenance of documents and recordsand furnishingof report by appointing authority over-riding effect of the act5 the provisions of this act shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained inany other law for the time being in force or any judgement, decree, order or direction of a court to the contrary regarding ceiling on reservationpower to make rules356 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rulesfor carrying out the purposes of the act40(2) every rule made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made,before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any  such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement  of  objects  and  reasonsabout twenty seven per cent of population in india is living below poverty linewhen we look into the matter of deprivation of rights of people due to poverty, the picture that emerges is not satisfactory poverty compels men and women to lead a miserable financial and social life due to which they have to face hunger and illness their income is meagre and they have to struggle for their existence it is now an established fact that people belonging to reserved categories have made progress on the basis of caste based reservation therefore, it is rational to provide reservation in posts and services to persons who are living below poverty line as a method to enable them to have a better standard of livingwe have to understand that in the case of appointments, reservation is not discrimination or a negative approach, rather it is beneficial, positive and necessary step for social and economic upliftment of neglected people facing starvation for a long time in the present caste-based reservation system, the beneficiaries belong to middle or upper class families within that community the extremely poor persons in the society have rarely benefited from it till date, a very small proportion of people living below poverty line have received the benefit of reservationto overcome the problems being faced by the persons living below poverty line, it is necessary that special provision is made for providing reservation in posts and services to such personshence this billnew delhi;vishnu dayal ramjune 29, 2017 memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 6 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill as the rules will relate to the matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character———— a billto provide for reservation of vacancies in posts and services in establishments for persons living below poverty line and for matters connected therewith————(shri vishnu dayal ram, mp)gmgipmrnd—913ls(s3)—21-07-2017