The State has a proposal to set up a legislative Council, for which a five-member MlA committee has been set up and entrusted the responsibility of visiting legislative Councils of other States for garnering functional modalities.
Parliament Affairs Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh said this in the State Assembly in a written reply to a question by Congress MlA Chandra Sekhar Majhi on Tuesday.
So far, the committee has visited legislative Councils of Karnataka and Maharashtra but is yet to submit its report to the Government. The committee has spent `2,49,207 for travelling to the two States.
The decision for setting up of a legislative Council would be taken after receipt of the report from the committee. Then only, annual expenditure to be borne for the legislative Council would be known, the Minister said.