What is Division Voting?

🛑 Briefly Explained

✅ A division is a type of voting which records how each MP voted on a motion.

✅ Generally the preferred method for making decisions in Parliament is through a voice vote. 

◼️ In this method, MPs orally convey their agreement or disagreement to a motion. It clubs the individual decisions of MPs in one loud chorus of “Ayes” or “Noes”. 

✅ Being an oral vote, it does not put on parliamentary record the stand of political parties and individual MPs on contentious political issues.

✅ Division, on the other hand, records how each MP voted on a particular motion. 

✅ Divisions also provide insights into the participation of MPs in the legislative process. When a Bill is passed by a voice vote there is no record of how many MPs were present in the House during the passage of a law.

🟡 Major Ports Authority Bill 2020.

✅ The Major Port Authorities Bill 2020 bill aims at decentralizing decision making and to infuse professionalism in governance of major ports.

✅ The Bill is aimed at reorienting the governance model in central ports to landlord port model in line with the successful global practice. 

✅ This will also help in bringing transparency in operations of Major Ports.

🟡 Some of the features of the Major Port Authorities Bill 2020 are 

✅ The Bill is more compact in comparison to the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 as the number of sections has been reduced to 76 from 134 by eliminating overlapping and obsolete Sections.

✅ The new Bill has proposed a simplified composition of the Board of Port Authority which will comprise of 11 to 13 Members from the present 17 to 19 Members representing various interests.

✅ Provisions of Corporate Social Responsibility & development of infrastructure by Port Authority have been introduced.

✅ The Board of each Major Port shall be entitled to create specific master plan in respect of any development or infrastructure. Etc.