Parliament has passed the Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020. Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of State (I/C) for Ports, Shipping &Waterways moved the bill in Rajya Sabha and it was passed. Presently the Bill will go to the President of India for his consent.
Proposing to advance the extension of the port framework and encourage exchange and trade, the Major Port Authorities Bill 2020 bill targets decentralizing dynamic and implanting polished skills in the administration of significant ports.
It confers quicker and straightforward dynamic profiting the partners and better undertaking execution capacity. The Bill is pointed toward reorienting the administration model in focal ports to the property manager port model following the effective worldwide practice. This will likewise help in carrying straightforwardness to the tasks of Major Ports. This will engage the Major Ports to perform with more prominent productivity under full self-sufficiency in dynamic and by modernizing the institutional structure of Major Ports.
The notable highlights of the Major Port Authorities Bill 2020 are as under: –
The Bill is more minimal in contrast with the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 as the number of areas has been decreased to 76 from 134 by taking out covering and old Sections.
The new Bill has proposed a disentangled structure of the Board of Port Authority which will contain 11 to 13 Members from the current 17 to 19 Members addressing different interests.
A reduced Board with proficient free Members will reinforce dynamic and vital arranging. The arrangement has been made for the consideration of agents of State Government in which the Major Port is arranged, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Defense and Customs, Department of Revenue as Members in the Board separated from a Government Nominee Member and a Member addressing the representatives of the Major Port Authority.
The part of the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) has been re-imagined. Port Authority has now been offered forces to fix tax which will go about as a source of perspective tax for motivations behind offering for PPP projects. PPP administrators will be allowed to fix duties dependent on economic situations. The Board of Port Authority has been appointed the ability to fix the size of rates for other port administrations and resources including land.
An Adjudicatory Board has been proposed to be made to do the remaining capacity of the recent TAMP for Major Ports, to investigate questions among ports and PPP concessionaires, to survey focused on PPP projects and recommend measures to audit focused on PPP projects and recommend measures to restore such undertakings and to investigate objections in regards to administrations delivered by the ports/private administrators working inside the ports.
The Boards of Port Authority have been appointed full powers to go into agreements, arranging, and improvement, fixing of duty besides in public interest, security, and crisis emerging out of inaction and default. In the present MPT Act, 1963 earlier endorsement of the Central Government was needed in 22 cases.
The Board of each Major Port will be qualified to make a particular groundbreaking strategy concerning any turn of events or foundation.
Arrangements of CSR and improvement of the framework by the Port Authority have been presented.
The arrangement has been made for defending the compensation and remittances and administration conditions including pensionary advantages of the workers of significant ports
