"The ordinance has not been withdrawn. The panel submitted its recommendations in 2015, but no action has taken place ever since.Soon after the House resumed proceedings on Tuesday, Kataria proposed that the bill be sent to a select committee. "I would like to inform the House that the sanction from the President was received on September 4," Kataria said. "Kataria said the bill was drafted on the lines of a similar law in Maharashtra. There was major resistance to this provision, he added.

Source: Times of India October 24, 2017 20:28 UTC