Lucknow

Assembly adjourned sine die

PNS

The monsoon session of Uttar Pradesh legislature came to an end with the Assembly being adjourned sine die on Friday. 

The brief six-day session, which commenced on August 23, approved the first supplementary budget of the current 2018-19 fiscal to the tune of over Rs 34,000 crore besides passing several bills.  

The first day of the session was adjourned after expressing condolence to late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.  

The supplementary budget was tabled on August 27 and passed amid boycott by the opposition on August 29.

During the six sittings of the House, the total time of the proceedings was 23 hours 12 minutes while the House was adjourned for 1 hour 12 minutes.

During the session, a total of 3,011 questions were raised by the members, including 138 short notice starred questions, 1,588 starred questions and 1,285 unstarred questions.  

The ministers gave written replies to all questions during the Question Hour. 

The government tabled the replies of all questions and no question was referred to the question and reference committee.

The members gave 379 notices under Rule 51 of the rules of business for conduct of proceedings of Uttar Pradesh Assembly seeking information on different issues. Of these, 11 were admitted by the Speaker who directed the government to give statement, while 188 notices were rejected by the Chair.  

The members gave 55 notices under Rule 56 seeking adjournment of the proceedings of the House to discuss the issue raised by them.