The monsoon session of Chhattisgarh State Assembly would be held from July 2 to July 6, in total the sitting of House is for five days. Supplementary Budget will be tabled while session has one amendment bill also, said Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal. He was briefing media on the session at Assembly premises on Monday.
laying out the session details, Agrawal said that on first day of session, the former Members would be paid rich tributes mainly freedom fighter and former MP Keyur Bhushan, former cabinet minister Hemchand Yadav, Vikram Bhagat, former minister of state having passed away recently. After five minutes gap, the regular work of day would be taken up in the assembly.
On July 3, the first Supplementary budget for year 2018-19 would be tabled which would be then taken up for discussion in House on July 4. There is one bill in this session which is Chhattisgarh State Finance Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2018, informed Speaker.
Agrawal said that around 768 questions have been received from the members out of which 389 are starred and 379 are un-starred questions. The adjournment, call attention motion and information during zero hour would be received on June 26, 2018. Two private resolutions have also been received.
Speaker further said that the statues of Swami Vivekananda and Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee would be unveiled. On July 5 in State Assembly premises, the 14-feet Statue of Swami Vivekananda would be unveiled while that of Dr Shyama Prasad bust would be unveiled at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee auditorium by Chhattisgarh Governor Balramji Das Tandon at 6.30 pm.
The Excellent MlA and journalists for year 2017 would also be felicitated on the occasion on July 5 in a function.
The Most Excellent MlA from treasury is Rajmahant Sawlaram Dahre while from opposition is Satyanarayan Sharma while the Excellent Parliamentary reporting journalist award will be received by Sanjeet Kumar and from electronic media Ashish Tiwari and cameraman Prakash Singh Yadav.
The farewell and felicitation event of sitting MlAs would be held on July 5 being the last session of State Assembly as the election is due this year. Agrawal said that the state assembly session details would be uploaded in state assembly website.
Answering to a question, he said some technical problem is arising in present system to make Vidhan Sabha a paperless after the study conducted by team having visited Himachal Pradesh.
Now already, re-tendering process has started for construction of new State Assembly building at Naya Raipur.