The Budget Session of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly will start on March 3 with LG’s address: Officials
This will be the first budget of Omar Abdullah led National Conference government after taking power on October 16 last year, ending 6 year long central rule.
"I, Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, under the provisions of Section 21(1) of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, call upon the Members of the Legislative Assembly to assemble in the Legislative Assembly Complex at Jammu on Monday, the 3rd of March, at 10 am to hear my address," reads a bulletin issued by Assembly secretariat.
In another bulletin, Assembly Secretariat has asked the members not to send more than 10 starred and 10 unstarred questions in relaxation of Rule 32 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business and not more than three bills in relaxation of sub-rule (3) of Rule 65 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business by February 10.
Members have also been asked not to send more than four resolutions in terms of Rule 174 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly by February 16.
The session will be of three weeks duration and the budget to be presented by the chief minister who is also the Finance Minister has to be approved by the legislature before March end.
This will be the first time Abdullah will be presenting budget in the Assembly. He had held charge of Home and General Administration departments among others during his previous tenure as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 2009 to 2014.
Previous five budgets were presented and passed by Parliament in the absence of the Assembly in Jammu and Kashmir while the then governor Satya Pal Malik led state administrative council passed the budget for 2019-2020 after the fall of PDP-BJP government in June 2018.
This will be the second session of Jammu and Kashmir legislative Assembly since the formation of NC led government in the Union Territory.
Earlier the Assembly met in Srinagar from November 4 to 8, just 20 days after the government was formed.
The central government revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and bifurcated it into two Union Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh -- in August 2019.
