The Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) passed two important bills on the third day of its ongoing sixth session on 6th March 2025.
The first bill, the Nagaland Town and Country Planning (Fourth Amendment) Bill, 2025, and the second bill, the Investment and Development Authority of Nagaland (Validation) Bill, 2025.
In addition, three new bills were introduced in the session. These include: “The Rules for Administration of Justice and Police in Nagaland (Fifth Amendment) Bill, 2025,” “The Nagaland Work-Charged and Casual Employees Regulation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2025” and “Nagaland Goods and Services Tax (Tenth Amendment) Bill, 2024.”
Chief Minister of Nagaland and Minister-in-charge of Finance, Dr Neiphiu Rio also presented the ‘Regularization of Excess Expenditure for the Year 2017-2018 (As recommended by the PAC bats 132nd report 2023-24),’ ‘Review of the Trends in Receipts and Expenditure for the First, Second and Third Quarter of the year 2024-25 (as required under Section 11 of the Nagaland Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2005),’ ‘Supplementary Demand for Grants for the year 2024-25,’ and ‘Statement under the Nagaland Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act 2025.’