Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha legislators remained absent from the all party meeting called by Assembly Speaker Dinesh Oraon ahead of the Budget Session of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly here on Tuesday. The Budget Session is scheduled to begin on January 17 and will conclude on February 08.
The meeting, chaired by Speaker Dinesh Oraon, was attended by Chief Minister Raghubar Das, Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Nilkanth Singh Munda, Congress party MLA Sukhdev Bhagat, Minister Chandra Prakash Chaudhary and Secretary of Legislative Assembly Mahendra Prasad.
The Speaker said during the meeting that he expects cooperation from everyone in the meeting for the conduct of the House. The beginning of the session will start with the address of the Governor. “We must bear in mind that there is no interference during the address,” he said. One of the important issues discussed in the meeting included the protests by legislators holding posters, slogans or punchline written t-shirts. It was said that entering the House with slogans or punchlines written clothes does not conform to the dignity of the House. All parties should take care of these subjects so that the dignity of the house remains intact, said the Speaker.
Congress Legislator Sukhdev Bhagat said that it is fine to raise and record issues within the purview of parliamentary tradition, but the tradition of holding the members outside the main gate of Legislative Assembly building does not seem right. On this, the Chief Minister said that the issue should be brought to Business Advisory Committee so that it could be discussed in detail.
The Speaker also chaired a high level meeting with the officials of different departments for smooth functioning of House during the Budget Session. He gave directions to ensure proper action taken by the police administration on the gates of the Legislative Assembly to ensure proper action on the prohibition of entry of outsiders in the period. Guidelines were given to the officials on the occasion for making it available answers of questions asked by the MLAs in the House.
The Speaker said that in relation to the online question-answer system, so far, on average, 67 per cent of the questions are answered in the online system, while the answer to 90 per cent of the questions is available from the offline system. He instructed the officials that there is a need to be more vigilant in order to get an answer online so that the work can be further accelerated.
The Speaker said that the number of pending assurances is 1731, the number of pending zero hours is 873, the number of pending requests is 352 and the number of calling attention is 14, the concerned officers of the departments should settle it as quickly as possible.
Principal Secretary, Home, Prisons and Disaster / Cabinet Secretariat, Director General of Police, Secretary of Legislative Assembly, Energy Secretary, Secretary, Finance, Secretary, Health Department, Municipal Commissioner, Ranchi, Deputy Development Commissioner, Ranchi, SSP, Ranchi, Director, IPRD and other officers were present in the meeting.