The Winter Session of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly will be held between December 7 and 11 at Tapovan here, Speaker Vipin Singh Parmar said on Monday.
Parmar chaired a meeting to review preparations for the session amid the Covid-19 pandemic and inspected various facilities in the Assembly premises.
The Speaker, while talking to the mediapersons said that officials have been asked to maintain law and order situation during the session and the police will prepare a traffic plan so that residents of Dharamshala and its surrounding areas do not face any inconvenience.
The Health Department officials have been asked to prepare a plan for compliance with COVID-19 protocol. Proper arrangements will be made to sanitise the Assembly premises at Tapovan before the session and also during the session, Parmar said.
A COVID-19 testing centre will also be established in the Assembly premises, he added.Notably, the Himachal Pradesh Assembly has two premises - Shimla and Tapovan near Dharamshala. The winter session of the Assembly is held at Tapovan in Kangra district.
THE Himachal cabinet had recently in its meeting decided to recommend to the Governor to convene the HP Vidhan Sabha winter session from December 7 to 11 at Dharamshala.Earlier, a 12-day monsoon session of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly was held in September in Shimla under strict COVID-19 measures.