Bihar Assembly Winter Session: Speaker Demands Timely Department Responses | Patna News – Times of India
Patna: State assembly Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav on Friday asked chief secretary Amrit Lal Meena to take necessary steps to ensure that answers from the departments concerned to the questions put by lawmakers are submitted in time during the five-day winter session of the state legislature itself. The session is set to begin on November 25 and end on November 29.
“Even as it is a brief session, the legislature is a constitutional democratic platform where the lawmakers raise questions related to the needs of people and development of the state. The departments should send the answers to the questions during the session itself,” he said.
The Speaker gave the directive at a high-level meeting held in the conference room of the assembly ahead of the winter session, convened to review the preparations required to facilitate the smooth running of the session, which will have five working days.
Among the participants were legislative council chairman Awadhesh Narayan Singh, deputy chairman Ram Vachan Rai, deputy speaker Narendra Narayan Yadav, parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary, chief secretary Meena, ADG K K Singh, senior officials from concerned departments, Patna DM Chandrashekhar Singh and SSP Rajiv Mishra. Assembly secretary incharge Khyati Singh and Council secretary Akhilesh Kumar Jha also participated.
Parliamentary affairs minister Choudhary said the chief secretary should direct the nodal officers of the departments to act in a proactive manner to ensure that the answers reach the legislature in time during the session itself.
The meeting also deliberated on matters related to security, traffic arrangements, medical facilities, cleanliness and all other aspects. The Speaker asked that the CCTV cameras of the state assembly and legislative council be kept in operation during the session.
Later, a 16-member select committee on the Kerala Public Records Bill, led by Kerala minister Ramachandran Kadannapalli, also met Yadav in his assembly chamber. He offered them mementos and ‘angavastram.’
“Even as it is a brief session, the legislature is a constitutional democratic platform where the lawmakers raise questions related to the needs of people and development of the state. The departments should send the answers to the questions during the session itself,” he said.
The Speaker gave the directive at a high-level meeting held in the conference room of the assembly ahead of the winter session, convened to review the preparations required to facilitate the smooth running of the session, which will have five working days.
Among the participants were legislative council chairman Awadhesh Narayan Singh, deputy chairman Ram Vachan Rai, deputy speaker Narendra Narayan Yadav, parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary, chief secretary Meena, ADG K K Singh, senior officials from concerned departments, Patna DM Chandrashekhar Singh and SSP Rajiv Mishra. Assembly secretary incharge Khyati Singh and Council secretary Akhilesh Kumar Jha also participated.
Parliamentary affairs minister Choudhary said the chief secretary should direct the nodal officers of the departments to act in a proactive manner to ensure that the answers reach the legislature in time during the session itself.
The meeting also deliberated on matters related to security, traffic arrangements, medical facilities, cleanliness and all other aspects. The Speaker asked that the CCTV cameras of the state assembly and legislative council be kept in operation during the session.
Later, a 16-member select committee on the Kerala Public Records Bill, led by Kerala minister Ramachandran Kadannapalli, also met Yadav in his assembly chamber. He offered them mementos and ‘angavastram.’
