In its first since the first Assembly of the State was formed, the House worked till close to midnight on Thursday after which the Speaker adjourned the Budget session sine die.
The session that started on June 8 saw seven bills, including Uttarakhand Residential University Amendment Bill-2017, being placed. In all, 690 questions were asked by the members during the session that went for around 43.38 hours.
Observers say that the credit of the session passing off sans any major slugfest and running till midnight on Thursday should go to the opposition which responsibly participated in the debate while keeping the treasury bench on the tenterhooks till the end.
While interacting with the media persons on Friday, The Speaker Premchand Aggrawal said that this session had made history of sorts, running for 11 hours and 11 minutes on June 11 and 11 hours and 25 minutes on June 15. “Besides, the House conducted business for 43 hours and 38 minutes during the session. For the first time of the legislative history of the State, the House was noisy for just 90 minutes. The last day of the session commenced at 11 am and ended at 11.50 pm, something which is unparalleled in the legislative history of the State,” he said
He further informed that the House had passed six bills, including the report on the lokayukta Bill, public servant annual transfer bill report and Uttarakhand public service commission annual report, in course of the session. Besides, under disabled act-1995 section -05, its commissioner has tabled its annual report, he added.
“Twenty eight questions were taken up and nine were answered in the House during the session. Besides, 165 star questions were taken up and 61 were answered while 387 non- star question were accepted and 158 were answered. Three questions earlier taken up were later cancelled and 40 were rejected while 70 were under consideration. In all, 693 questions were received by the Vidhan Sabha for this session and out of them, 231 were answered,” the Speaker informed.
He further informed that the House had received 136 notices under section 300, but 56 of them were accepted. “While 80 notices under section 53 were received 10 were accepted. Besides, 14 notices under section 58 were received and all were accepted by the House,” he said.
During the session, the Deputy Speaker Raghunath Singh Chouhan chaired the House from day one during the Speaker’s absence.
Sounding happy over the Budget session having made history aside from being a relatively smooth affair, the Speaker thanked both the old members as well as the first-time members for their enthusiastic participation in the session.