Governor Ram Naik has convened the budget session of Uttar Pradesh assembly from February 5.
The session will begin with the Governor’s address to the joint sitting of both houses of the state legislature. The date of presentation of the budget for 2019-20 fiscal is likely to be decided next week.
An official of Vidhan Sabha secretariat said that the meeting of business advisory committee of the assembly was likely to be held on February 4 in which the date of presentation of the budget and the agenda of the budget session would be decided.
In view of the coming Lok Sabha elections, the budget session is likely to be a short one.
As per rules of business for the conduct of proceedings of UP Vidhan Sabha, there should be a minimum of 23 sittings during the budget session. During the session, four days are allotted for debate on the motion of thanks to the Governor’s address to the joint sitting of the state legislature and four days for general discussion on the annual budget followed by grant-wise debate on the budget.
Meanwhile, Speaker Hriday Narayan Dikshit on Monday formally inaugurated the Parliamentary Monitoring Committee of the assembly set up on August 29 last year.
Dikshit said the PMC played an important role in ensuring accountability of bureaucracy and other agencies of the state. He said the committee would address the long-standing grievances of MLAs that the government was either evasive or not in giving satisfactory reply or information in response to questions and notices given by members during the session of the House.
He said that the committee would also address issues concerning the protocol of members of the House.
An official of assembly secretariat said, “The complaints by MLAs, particularly of the opposition, that they were being ignored or humiliated by government officials would be taken up and redressed by the PMC and action would betaken against errant officials.
UP Assembly is the only one among Commonwealth nations to have such kind of committee for ensuring accountability of the bureaucracy.