House adjourned sine die

Raipur, December 23, 2011

The state Assembly’s winter session concluded on Friday. Speaker Dharamlal Kaushik adjourned the House sine die. He expressed his satisfaction over House proceedings and said both ruling and opposition parties played their role responsibly. “The House proceedings concluded in cordial manner. The opposition moved no confidence motion and raised several issues while the government replied to each query,” he said.

In this session, the Congress moved no confidence motion on the first day, i.e. December 15. The House conducted debate on the motion for three days (December 16, 19 and 20). About 48 members of the House put their views during the debate in 23 hours 19 minutes.

In this seven-day winter session, the members debated on various issues for 47 hours. The House received about 779 questions out of which 338 were starred questions. The debate was conducted on 77 starred questions.

The Assembly received nine non-governmental resolutions of which four were tabled in the House and all were passed. One government resolution was also tabled in the House and was passed unanimously.

The House received 41 adjournment motions during Question Hour and 64 in Zero Hour while it admitted 44 of the total motions. Similarly, the members had send 248 call attention motions to be tabled in the House but 51 were admitted.

In this session, the government tabled seven bills and all were passed. Besides, five departmental reports were also tabled in the House.

The Speaker said the budget session of the House tentatively commence from the second week of March 2012.