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LIVE | Winter session Day 4: Congress moves Adjournment Motions in LS seeking debate on Delhi-NCR pollution

FM Sitharaman likely to table Health Security se National Security Cess Bill today Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to move the Health Security se National Security Cess Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha today. The Bill aims to boost resources for national security and public health. It proposes levying a cess on machines installed and other processes involved in the manufacturing or production of specified goods. Congress MPs move Adjournment Motions in Lok Sabha over Delhi-NCR pollution Congress MPs Manickam Tagore, Manish Tewari and Vijay Vasanth on Thursday moved Adjournment Motion notices in the Lok Sabha seeking a discussion on rising air pollution in Delhi-NCR and across North India. As the Winter Session enters its fourth day, the MPs urged the Centre to declare pollution a national health emergency. Tagore, in his notice to the Lok Sabha Secretary-General, said the government remains paralysed, issuing advisories instead of action, committees instead of solutions, slogans instead of a coordinated national strategy. He demanded a national clean air mission backed by law, strict liability for polluters and emergency health protocols. Vijay Vasanth accused the government of a monumental failure to even measure the crisis, claiming that without real-time data, CAQM and CPCB were unable to implement GRAP measures effectively. He reiterated the demand for a national public health emergency and called for restoring monitoring stations, enforcing liability, and launching a time-bound clean-air mission.