Chandigarh: Ahead of the upcoming Haryana budget session from Feb 20, assembly Speaker Harvinder Kalyan on Wednesday reviewed security and protocol arrangements with senior officers of the CISF, Haryana Police, Punjab Police, UT Police, and civil administration officials from the two states and UT Chandigarh during a final meeting at the Assembly Secretariat here.This comes a day after Kalyan met governor Prof Aseem Kumar Ghosh and held formal discussions about the latter’s inaugural address on the first day of the budget session. After the address, a group photograph of all members with the governor will be taken at the Ceremonial Gate. The UT administration, Chandigarh, has been asked to take steps in this regard.
The meetings will continue on Thursday, with the Business Advisory Committee scheduled in the morning and a meeting with committee chairpersons in the evening.During a meeting with senior officials of Haryana, Punjab and UT Chandigarh, the assembly Speaker directed that all arrangements for the session be made meticulously so that no member or visitor faces inconvenience. He also instructed officials to ensure food, refreshments and other essentials for security personnel on duty, and said media personnel should not be subjected to multiple checks.The Speaker emphasised maintaining discipline in all galleries, including the press gallery, with no unnecessary movement or conversation allowed. He also called for additional arrangements if the Haryana and Punjab Assembly budget sessions coincide. The issue of wild animals entering the assembly complex was raised, and police officials said the wildlife department had been contacted.Those present at the meeting include Haryana police director general Ajay Singhal, ADGP CID Saurabh Singh, ADGP (law and order) Sanjay Kumar, IG Security Pankaj Nain, CISF deputy commissioner Nitin Kumar, SDM (Central) Naveen from UT Chandigarh, along with officials of Haryana and Punjab assemblies.Box : 11 calling attention motionsTwo INLD MLAs, Aditya Devi Lal Chautala and Arjun Chautala, have submitted 11 calling attention motions and 21 starred and unstarred questions for the budget session.The motions seek clarification on issues including alleged inaction on the Supreme Court’s order on the SYL canal, deteriorating law and order, vacant teacher posts in government schools, rising drug abuse, staff shortages in universities, alleged overcharging of about Rs 72 lakh from HTET examinees, old age honour pension, non-allotment of land for the Assembly building in Chandigarh, alleged inaction in a Rs 1,500 crore Labour Ministry scam, shortage of vocational training teachers, and irregularities in paddy and bajra procurement.MSID:: 128511726 413 |
