The Budget Session of Uttarakhand Assembly was adjourned sine die by the Speaker Prem Chand Agarwal on Friday after the departmental Budgets were passed. A total of nine bills were passed by the State Assembly during the session.
The important bills passed by the Assembly in course of the Budget Session included Uttarakhand Public Services ( reservation for economically weaker sections) Ordinance- 2019 granting 10 percent reservation for upper castes, Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission (amendment) Bill-2019 and The Indian partnership (Uttarakhand amendment) bill-2019. One of the highlights of the Session was acceptance of the Congress’ proposal for a discussion under Rule 310 on the hooch tragedy in Haridwar district.
During the Session, two directives were passed by the chair.
The Speaker ordered constitution of a committee to investigate the illicit liquor tragedy. The committee submitted its report to the Speaker on February 21. The Speaker also directed that a committee should be constituted to look into the functioning of District Development Authority.
Talking to the media persons after adjournment of the Assembly, Agarwal said that the House had worked for 33 hours 49 minutes during the Session. He said that a total of 112 notices under Rule 300 had been received out of which 29 had been accepted.
Similarly, 72 notices were received under Rule 53 out of which 10 were accepted. The Speaker added that 31 notices had been received under rule 31 out of which 17 had been accepted. He further informed that a total of 710 questions had been placed by the members for the Session. He added that 101 out of 170 starred questions and 340 out of 493 un-starred questions had been answered in course of the Session.