STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The Assam Assembly will sit for its autumn session for five days beginning tomorrow. The Assembly will have its session in the new Assembly, which Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurated on July 30 this year. Besides decoration, the new assembly has an airtight security barrier.
Speaker Biswajit Daimary and senior officials of the Assembly Secretariat reviewed the arrangements for the session.
On the very first day, the government will introduce some bills and supplementary demands for grants and supplementary appropriations (additional budgetary provisions) for the financial year 2023–24.
Speaking to the media today, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pijush Hazarika requested the members of the State Assembly to work across party lines to ensure the smooth functioning of the session. He said that the opposition would get time to express their views as per the rules of the Assembly. He said that the government would introduce around 23 bills, including one for amendment to the Panchayat Act, upgrading some of the colleges to universities, etc., during the session.
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