On the second day of the ongoing winter session of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, the second supplementary budget of Rs 2926.12 crore was tabled in the house amidst protest by BJP members over anomalies in Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) examination. State Finance Minister, Rameshwar Oraon tabled the second supplementary budget for the current financial year. The supplementary budget will be discussed in the House on Monday. In the supplementary budget, the highest provision of Rs 620 crore has been made in the pension head.
Followed by allocation of Rs 620 crore in pension head, Rs 588 crore has been allocated for Energy Department, Rs 518 crore for Health Department, Rs 231 crore for Water Resources Department, Rs 208 crore for Home Prison and Disaster Management Department, Rs 172 crore for Higher and Technical Education Department. A provision of Rs 188 crore has been made for the Department of Women and Child Development.
Earlier, the second day of the winter session of Assembly remained uproarious as the BJP legislators staged demonstrations inside and outside the house demanding a CBI probe into irregularities in the JPSC preliminary test examination and dismissal of JPSC Chairman Amitabh Chaudhary.
Amid the disturbance by the BJP legislators, the session which started at 11 is could continue till 12.30 pm with an interval of 25 minutes from 11.50 am to 12.15 pm. Later, the session of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly was adjourned till 11 am on Monday. The issue of JPSC dominated the house throughout the day. The opposition was attacking the government on the issue of JPSC as well as unemployment and electricity.
Speaker Rabindranath Mahato was seen furious with the sloganeering of Opposition members who entered the well of the house.
The Speaker furious at Opposition members' behaviour said that legislators should not indulge in such naked protest. He said, “This is not the way of protest. Public questions are not coming into the house. All are public representatives and they have to answer to the people. The Prime Minister has also expressed his resentment over the uproar in Parliament.”
During the 50-minute question hours, Poraiyahat MLA Pradeep Yadav raised the issue of power crisis and demanded a reassessment of the MoU done between PTPS and NTPC as NTPC failed to generate 2400 MW power in between 2015 to 2019 contrary to its agreement. Replying to Yadav on the issue, the government assured reassessment.
Jamshedpur (East) MLA Saryu Roy expressed his concern over the wrong reply from the government on the matter of empanelment of private hospitals for health insurance scheme and demanded the constitution of an assembly committee to probe the matter. On which he got assurance that he will get a proper reply on Tuesday in the current session.
Ruling as well as opposition members including Amba Prasad, Sameer Kumar Mohanty and Lambodar Mahto too raised issues of public concern in the House.