U.P. plans mandatory sitting of Assembly

LUCKNOW, APRIL 1. For the first time in the history of the Indian legislature, the Uttar Pradesh Government plans to bring in a resolution making the sitting of the State Assembly mandatory for a minimum period of ten days every two months.

The rules and regulations committee of the House has already made a proposal in this regard and a resolution to this effect would be placed before the Vidhan Sabha during the budget session itself, the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Hukum Singh, told PTI here today.

For the past three decades, the State Assembly has not been able to hold the mandatory sitting of 90 days, he said. Although a day's proceedings of the Assembly cost about Rs. 9 lakhs, the House rarely took up important issues with the Opposition often stalling proceedings.

The move to make the sitting mandatory for ten days every alternate month would be done for the first time in the country on the pattern of the British Parliament, he said. This step would strengthen the legislature and check the bureaucracy that calls the shots in the absence of an effective legislative control, he said.

- PTI

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