A nine member delegation of members of legislative Assembly of Jharkhand would be taking part in the 17th All India Whip’s Conference to be organised on September 29 at Vishakhapattanam in Andhra Pradesh.
The conference is being organised by Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to discuss parliamentary system and also to find out compliance with the recommendations of earlier conference. The conference will be inaugurated by Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, M Venkaiah Naidu.
The delegation will be led by Minister, Parliamentary Affairs, Saryu Roy and it includes Chief Whip of BJP in Jharkhand Assembly, Radha Krishna Kishore; MlAs Anant Kumar Ojha, Bimla Prahdhan, Kedar Hazra, Jagarnath Mahto, Nagendra Mahto, Nalin Soren and Kunal Sarangi as other members.
There will be discussion on a broad range of agendas including, reviewing recommendations of the 16th All India Whips’ Conference; salary, allowances of MPs and State legislators with emphasis on collecting views about the need to have a permanent mechanism to determine salary and allowances of Members of Parliament and legislators; establishment of Inter-Party Forums in Parliament and State legislatures to facilitate functioning of Houses and to resolve problematic issues and to find out the answer to the question of whether the MPlAD Scheme needs amendment in light of the experiences of public representatives in the course of its implementation.
The 16th conference had suggested nine recommendations for better house management, better coordination among party members, setting aside one-day for private bills and resolutions, privileges, members’ training, number of working days of assembly in a year.