The month long Jharkhand Assembly Budget Session will begin on February 28 and it will continue till March 28. During the month-long budget session the House will be functional for 18 days. The budget session will be held at
new Assembly building at Kute village.
Assembly speaker, Rabindra Nath Mahato on the preparations of budget session on Thursday held a meeting, which was attended by senior bureaucrats and police officers. The Speaker directed the officials for numbering of gates of new Assembly campus, so that the entry and exit of lawmakers and officials is carried out hassle free. In the new Assembly building there will be four gates and the directions have been issued by Speaker for deployment of adequate number of security personnel and officials at four gates.
The Speaker also directed that at officers’ gallery, there will be sitting arrangements for senior administrative officers along with medical facilities. The Speaker directed that apart from ambulances, there will be medical facilities at Assembly.
The Speaker also directed the officials for improving communication, IT connectivity and Internet facility at Assembly. The Speaker asked the officials for repairing the roads connecting main Assembly premises to main road. Elaborate arrangement of firefighting equipment will be made at the Assembly.
Those who attended the meeting included Chief Secretary DK Tiwari, Additional Chief Secretary (Home Department Sukhdeo Singh, Cabinet Secretary AK Singh, Health Department principal secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni among others.
Sources said that the next Budget session is going to witness stormy session as the BJP is likely to raise the state government reported move to rollback the Mukhyamantri Krishi Ashirward Yojana’. The BJP will also raise the issue of reports that another welfare scheme might be withdrawn by the JMM- Congress-RJD coalition government led by Hemant Soren, a BJP leader said.
A spurt in Naxalism in state will also be highlighted during the session, he said. The saffron party has 25 MLAs in the 81-member House.
The new Assembly building on December first week caught fire. Though there was no report of any injury in the fire several files and documents were gutted in fire. The exact cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. The newly constructed Jharkhand Assembly building at Kute in Ranchi was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 12 last year.