Officers and employees waiting for encashing their leaves in December will have to wait longer as government has cancelled the leave of officers and employees of all departments between December 15 and December 21, due to winter session of State Assembly commencing from December 15.
The winter session of Jharkhand Assembly is starting from 5th December. This winter session will last for 7 days i.e. till 21st December.
Officers and employees can take leave only during special holidays after the permission of the government. Here, Additional Chief Secretary of Health Department, Arun Kumar Singh has written a letter to all civil surgeons and other officials and directed them to cancel the leave.
The winter session of the Assembly will last for 7 days. During this period, officers and employees working in various departments will also perform their respective duties.
Officials and employees of the concerned department can be contacted for answers and data to the questions asked in the Assembly.
For this, it is necessary that officers and employees remain in their departments and on duty. For urgent leave, it is mandatory to take permission from the Additional Chief Secretary.
This will be the last and fifth winter session of the state government. After this, assembly elections are probably to be held in October-November 2024. In such a situation, the winter session cannot go ahead. There are chances of a lot of uproar this time in the winter session.
The decision for winter session of Assembly was taken at a meeting of the Jharkhand cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren last week.
The cabinet approved the proposal of convening the 13th session (winter) of the fifth Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from December 15 to December 21,” state Cabinet Secretary Vandana Dadel said.
The seven day of winter session is likely to witness stormy session as Opposition BJP is going to corner state government on several issues.
The state government led by JMM, Congress and the RJD will have to be prepared to face a lot of questions in the upcoming winter session. Cash haul at Congress party’s Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu’s business establishments across Odisha, which has been making headlines nationally, will be a dominant topic during session.
That apart, the opposition, comprising the BJP and Ajsu party, will try to pin the treasury benches down on issues of corruption, including the summons being issued by the ED to Soren for questioning in a land scam case in Ranchi.
The Soren government, which will be looking to deflect the opposition’s barbs, on the other hand does not seem to have enough ammunition in its arsenal going into the session as time constraint will keep them from reintroducing three key bills in the House for their passage.
The anti-lynching bill of 2021, OBC reservation bill of 2022 and the 1932 Khatiyan based definition of locals’ bill of 2022 were all returned by the Raj Bhavan citing several legal and constitutional violations. The state government, at the start of this year’s monsoon session in July, had claimed that the Raj Bhavan had not forwarded the noting of the governors, thereby hindering the amendment process.
