Puducherry Mar 30 PTI The Puducherry Assembly adjourned sine die on Wednesday after passing the Appropriation Vote on Account Bill tabled by Chief Minister N Rangasamy with Rs 361366 crore allocated for five months from April to August of the upcoming financial year Over the course of a two-hour long session the House adopted the Appropriation Vote on Account Bill which earmarked funds for the five months from April to August 2022 and also approved supplementary demand for grants for financial year 2021-2022 As soon as the Chief Minister tabled the Vote on Account Bill members belonging to both the ruling and opposition bloc raised several issues concerning the woes of unemployed youth and availability of infrastructure such as roads and health care facilities Members of both the treasury and opposition benches expressed concern over rampant availability of ganja and other narcotics in Puducherry and also unemployed youth falling prey to drug peddlers Government Whip A K D Arumugham wanted the territorial administration to create a separate cell in the police department under the head of a Superintendent of Police to handle cases relating to ganja Opposition DMK leader R Siva underscored the need for holding the Assembly session for a considerable number of days instead of having it only for a day He also said the government should also ensure that a full-fledged budget was passed instead of adopting a Vote on Account Earlier the members belonging to the DMK and Congress in the opposition bloc registered strong protests against holding the session for a day and also against adopting a Vote on Account without presenting a full-fledged budget All the opposition legislators staged a walk-out from the House flaunting placards stating their demands However all of them returned to the House a few minutes later to participate in the proceedings PTI COR HDA HDA
Puducherry Feb 18 PTI The Puducherry Assembly has been summoned to meet on February 23 a communique said on Friday In the release issued by Assembly Secretary R Mounissamy it said Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has summoned the session to meet at 930 am on February 23 This is the second session of the 15th Assembly constituted in the wake of the polls held on April 6 last year The first session of the 15th Assembly was held for a week in August 2021 There are 30 elected and three nominated legislators in the House The ruling AINRC has 10 members BJP 6 Independents 6 DMK 6 Congress 2 and nominated legislators three PTI COR HDA HDA
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