Raipur,
March 22, 2013
The state assembly’s 25-day budget session (from Febraury 18 to March
22, 2013) concluded on Friday with Speaker Dharamlal Kaushik adjourning the
House sine die. He said the next session would likely be conducted in 2nd-3rd
week of July 2013. “In 25 sittings, the House debated for 148 hours 25
minutes,” he said during his concluding speech.
He informed that the opposition members proposed
for 1064 amendments on Governor’s address and the House debated for 10 hours 10
minutes on them in three days.
Similarly, the House debated for 7 hours 47
minutes on government’s income-expenditure for financial year 2013-14 in two
days. He said the House had fixed debate for 36 hours 30 minutes in 12 days from
Febraury 28 to March 18, 2013 but the members debated for 64 hours 51 minutes.
He informed that the House passed 11 out of 12
private member’s resolutions while one resolution was withdrawn from the member
who moved it. Besides, 14 governmental bills were tabled and passed after
debate in the House, he added.
He said the prominent bills were - Chhattisgarh SC,
ST and OBC (Regulation for Certification of Social Status) Bill 2013, International
Institute of Information Technology University Bill 2013, Criminal Law
(Chhattisgarh Amendment) Bill 2013 and Right to Skill Development to Youth Bill
2013. He hoped that the four would prove as milestone in development of state.
He informed that the House received the total of
2771 information regarding starred and unstarred questions and conducted debate
on 230 starred questions.
Similarly, the House received 190 proposals regarding
adjournment motion, but debate was conducted over acceptability of 37 adjournment
motions (which had proposed for one common subject). The House rejected 149
proposals of adjournment motion and transformed four into call attention.
The House received 747 proposals regarding call
attention of which 125 were accepted, 527 were rejected and 95 were transformed
to zero hour. Likewise, 194 proposals were received for zero hour but the House
accepted only 112. In this session, 25 reports of different governmental
departments were also tabled.
During session, the House nominated two of its
members – Pratima Chandrakar and Rajni Ravishankar Tripathi to participate in commonwealth
women parliamentarians’ conference at New
Delhi on March 8 and 9. “The two represented
Chhattisgarh chapter of commonwealth parliamentary association and expressed
their views in the conference,” he said congratulating the duo.
He informed that the state assembly issued 29750 visitor’s
pass during budget session.
CG assly should be called ‘aam aadmi ka VS’: CM
Chief minister Raman Singh says that Chhattisgarh assembly should be
called ‘aam aadmi ka Vidhan Sabha’ as 29750 people visited and watched House
proceedings during current budget session. “There were range of visitors from
engineers to doctors to advocates to students who curiously watched House
proceedings and learned how active is our assembly,” Singh said.
He said some of the bills tabled and passed in
the House were on serious subjects that had drawn the nation’s attraction in
the recent past. He said the House members debated on almost all the major
issues during the session. He also termed all the private member’s resolution
significant and related to public interest.
Terming the opposition like Amrit salt the CM appreciated
it for playing its role responsible.
He said
Chhattisgarh assembly was different from other assemblies across the country as
its members maintain decorum and pride of the House and never cross the line.
Opposition upheld democratic values: Choubey
Leader of opposition Ravindra Choubey said the opposition succeeded in
upholding legislative supremacy democratic values and playing its role
effectively in state assembly during budget session.
Terming the session as successful for Congress he
said that the party strongly attacked the government on burning issues through
debates. “This was the last session of this term as July 2013 session will be a
farewell session. The opposition played creative role in this session,” he
said.
He said the opposition also strictly followed its
own rules, i.e. of self-discipline and did not enter the well of the House.
“Entering the well is always the last weapon of
an opposition and we did not need to use it as we continuously gheraoed the
government during question hours and debates,” he said.
He slammed the BJP government for failing to construct
MLA rest houses in ten years.
Regretting that state assembly could not reach to
60 sittings in a session in last 13 years he said it was decided in the
parliament that small Vidhan Sabhas including Chhattisgarh should conduct at
least 60 sittings in a session.
He also regretted that the parliamentary affairs
minister Brijmohan Agrawal opposed reintroduction of Congress MLA Mohammad
Akbar’s private member’s bill in the House and debate could not be held on it. He,
however, hailed all other bills tabled and passed in the House.
He asked the government to put oil paintings of
great leaders of Chhattisgarh including Pt Ravishankar Shukla in newly
constructed Central Hall in Vidhan Sabha.
Opposition’s criticisms a touchstone in
democracy: Boudh
The Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP) MLA Doojram Boudh said opposition’s criticisms were touchstone for ruling
party in democracy. “The opposition plays big role in the democracy. Even the
CM accepts it as he admired me recently when I criticised him and his
government in the House on some issue and the next the media prominently
flashed my name,” he said.
It was most successful session:
Brijmohan
Parliamentary affairs
minister Brijmohan Agrawal said the current budget session was the most
successful in the history of Chhattisgarh assembly. “25 sittings were fixed for
this session and the House successfully conducted all 25. The House members –
be it from ruling party or opposition, participated actively in the debate and
expressed their views. The opposition members compelled the ministers to reply
while the latter too responded well,” he said.
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