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Budget session from Feb 23
The Budget session of Parliament will begin on February 23 and will continue till May 13, subject to exigencies of government business with recess from March 17 till April 24, to enable the Department-Related Standing Committees examine the Budget proposals of different ministries and departments.
New Delhi: The Budget session of Parliament will begin on February 23 and will continue till May 13, subject to exigencies of government business with recess from March 17 till April 24, to enable the Department-Related Standing Committees examine the Budget proposals of different ministries and departments.
The details of Budget session schedule were informed by Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu after the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs firmed up the schedule here on Thursday.
Naidu said the session opens with the Address of President Pranab Mukherjee to the Members of both the Houses at a Joint Sitting in the Central Hall of Parliament on February 23. Presentation of Railway Budget will be on February 25, Economic Survey the next day and the General Budget on February 29.
Ratification of Ordinance relating to President’s Rule in Arunachal Pradesh and passing of a Bill in respect of Ordinance regarding Enemy Properties will be taken up on priority during the session, it was disclosed. The session will have a total of 31 sittings spread over a total duration of 81 days.
The session this year will run full course with recess in between unlike in 2011 when the recess was done away with, on account of Assembly elections in five States that are going to polls this year also. These states are: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, West Bengal and Assam.
Ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitely, Venkaiah Naidu, Dr Najma Heptuallah, Ramvilas Paswan, Smriti Zubin Irani and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi attended the CCPA meeting. Before the CCPA meeting, Naidu, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs consulted leaders of different parties seeking their views on scheduling of the Budget session keeping in view the Assembly polls in five states.
