The brief seven-day monsoon session of Uttar Pradesh Assembly was adjourned sine die on Friday.
This was the second session of the Assembly this year.
Assembly Speaker Hriday Naryan Dikshit said that during the session, there were seven sittings of the House in which 139 short notice questions, 1,092 starred questions and 1,553 unstarred questions were received and answers of 877 questions were tabled by the government.
Proceedings of the House lasted for 25 hours 39 minutes during the seven sittings and the House was adjourned for 3 hours .3 minutes. There was no disruption in proceedings of the House, barring the first day.
The House adopted two unanimous resolutions, first congratulating scientists of Indian Space Research Organisation for the successful launch of Chandrayaan–II and second, on elevation of Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Phagu Chauhan as the Governor of Bihar.
The Assembly also condoled the death of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and former 15 MLAs.
The Speaker said that 565 notices were given by the members under Rule 51 of Rules of Business for the Conduct of Proceedings of UP Assembly, seeking information from the government on different issues and 373 notices under Rule 301 for drawing the attention of government towards those issues.
Dikshit further said that 38 notices seeking adjournment of the proceedings of the House under Rule 56 were also received where debate was held and later rejected.
During the monsoon session, 277 petitions were tabled by members in the House.
The House approved the first supplementary budget to the tune of Rs 13,594.87 crore. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also participated in the debate and delivered a speech.
The Speaker said that during the session, 13 bills were passed by the Assembly, including UP Private Universities Bill, 2019; UP Education Service Tribunal, 2019; UP State University (Amendment) Bill, 2019 for renaming Allahabad State University as Prof Rajendra Singh University. The other bills passed include UP Water Supply and Sewerage Bill, 2019; UP Revenue Code Bill, 2019; UP State Emblem (Prohibition of Improper Use) Bill, 2019 and UP Ground Water Management and Regulation Bill, 2019.