The Chhattisgarh Assembly's 13-day budget session will commence on March 7 with the Governor's address. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel will table the budget on March 9, said Assembly Speaker Dr Charandas Mahant on Saturday.
Briefing the media, he said Governor Anusuiya Uikey will address the House on March 7 at 11.00 am.
This will be followed by obituary references to former undivided Madhya Pradesh MLA Ramesh Warlyani, Madan Singh Dehariya and legendary playback singer Lata Mangeshkar. The 3rd supplementary Budget will be tabled the same day.
He said the Chief Minister, holding the Finance portfolio, will table the appropriation bill (Budget) of 2022-23 on March 9. The departmental wise demand will be discussed from March 11 to 24.
On the initiative taken for paperless assembly proceedings, he said 1,499 questions out of total 1,682 were received online. Thus, 90 percent of total questions came online.
Even the answers to these questions were received online from respective departments.
The questions and answers were then sent online for printing.
He said that to assess the savings in the form of money, paper, fuel and others after adopting the procedure, a report was sought from the Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
The primary report states that this procedure saves 4,50,000 pages (75 GSM grade and A4 size) to the tune of 2.2 tonnes per year. It also saves 58 trees.
Every year, around 657 kilowatts per hour electricity is saved besides 1 lakh litres of water.