Budget of Rs 57,400.32 crore, nine bills passed by the House
The budget session of Uttarakhand assembly was adjourned sine die by the speaker Prem Chand Agarwal on Saturday. In the major business of the day the house passed the budget of Rs 57,400.32 crore for the year 2021-22 by voice vote. Earlier in the day the Congress members staged a Dharna at the entrance of Vidhan Sabha in protest against alleged irregularities and delay in construction works in the Haridwar Kumbh Mela. As soon as the proceedings of the house started the Congress members demanded work adjournment motion under rule 310 on corruption. The senior Congress leader and Chakrata MLA, Pritam Singh said that the discussion should be held on corruption in land acquisition and disbursement of compensation in NH-74 and the recent order of Uttarakhand High Court for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry on allegation of corruption on Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat. The parliamentary affairs minister Madan Kaushik objected to the demand and said that since these issues are subjudice they cannot be discussed in the house. The speaker also denied permission to discuss the issue. Raising the issue of alleged corruption in Haridwar Kumbh, the leader of opposition Indira Hridayesh demanded that discussion on it should be held under rule 310. The Manglaur MLA Qazi Nizamuddin raised the issue of 108 ambulances under rule 58 on the day. He said that the fleet of the 108 emergency service ambulances is in bad shape. In his response Kaushik said that the state government has recently added 140 new ambulances in the fleet of 108 emergency service.
The Jageshwar MLA, Govind Singh Kunjwal raised the issue of guest teachers under rule 58. He said that these teachers are working for a meagre salary of Rs 15,000 per month and their salary should be increased to Rs 50,000 per month. In his reply the education minister Arvind Pandey said that the guest teachers were deployed on vacant posts on purely temporary basis. He said that it is not possible to increase the stipend of these teachers.
50 out of 186 starred questions answered during six-day session
The six day budget session of Uttarakhand assembly functioned for a total of 31 hours 29 minutes. Giving details of the session the speaker Prem Chand Agarwal said that 630 questions were received by the assembly for the session. He said that out of 186 starred questions, 50 were answered while 85 out of 352 unstarred questions were answered.
He further informed that a total of 32 petitions were accepted during the session. Agarwal said that 25 notices out of 28 received under rule 300 were forwarded. A total of nine bills were tabled and passed by the house during the session. The speaker said that for the first time the proceedings of the house were telecast live on DIPR Facebook page.
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