The Chhattisgarh Assembly Secretariat would be holding an Orientation Programme for legislators on July 16 and 17 this year, informed Chhattisgarh Assembly Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal on Tuesday.
An Orientation Programme had already been held for the first time legislators on February 1 and 2 last year in which they were informed about various legislative processes and the rules on conduct of the House, he said while addressing media persons in the Chhattisgarh Assembly premises here.
He said that during the Orientation Programme on February 1 and 2 last year, the first time legislators learnt various mediums to be used for raising public oriented issues in the House.
‘After nearly one-and-half years, now the legislators would be imparted further training on legislative procedures and conduct of the House as they have already learnt a lot during the previous sessions on various rules of the House’, Agrawal said.
The Orientation Programme would be inaugurated on July 16 by lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and the same would be concluded on July 17 by State Governor Balramji Dass Tandon in the Chhattisgarh Assembly premises, he said.
The other legislative experts mainly Union Minister Thawarchand Gehlot, Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh legislative Assembly Mata Prasad Pandey, former Minister and member of the Himachal Pradesh legislative Assembly Asha Kumari would be present during the Orientation Programme, the Speaker stated.
Invitations have also been sent to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and other legislative experts for their participation in the Orientation Programme, he said.
On the forthcoming monsoon session of the Chhattisgarh Assembly , Agrawal said that a total of 964 starred questions had been received besides 732 unstarred questions totalling 1,696, Agrawal said. The calling attention and adjournment motions would be taken up on July 14, he said.
The State Government’s legislative Affairs Department has issued notice for three proposed bills to be presented on the floor of the House, the Speaker said. This apart, the estimates of first supplementary budget for 2015-16 would be presented on July 22 and discussions on the same would be held on July 23, he said.
The Speaker also stated that the Chhattisgarh government has requested for ‘DD Satellite Channel’ to enable live telecast of the State Assembly proceedings from the Central government. To a suggestion on enhancing the duration of the question hour, Agrawal stated : ‘A thought would be given to it’.
The Speaker also stated that the legislative proceedings and the political activity should not be mixed during the conduct of the House as the Assembly sits to address the concerns of the general public.
He said that the period of the forth coming monsoon session had been enhanced from 5 to 10 days to allow members more time to raise questions and have discussions.