Odisha Assembly Speaker Holds All-Party Meeting ahead of Winter Session

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Assembly Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro today held an all-party meeting ahead of the commencement of Winter Session of the House from December 1.

The Speaker informed that the House will meet for around five hours daily during the Session.

The first sitting of the Assembly will be from 10.30 AM to 1.30 PM and the house will meet again from 4 PM to 6 PM, he added.
As per the provisional calendar of sittings issued by the Assembly, the Session will have 26 working days and the first supplementary statement of expenditure for the year 2021-22 will be presented on the first day of the winter session (December 1).

Debate on demands of grants will be conducted in the House from December 7 to 9 while the Appropriation Bill on the first supplementary budget will be tabled on December 10.

Five days (December 3, 17, 24, 29 and 31) have been reserved for private members businesses. There will be no meetings on December 5,12,19 and December 26 due to Sunday, and on December 25, due to Christmas.

Meanwhile, all MLAs including ministers, their security staff and drivers are undergoing RT-PCR test.

The persons, who found negative in the RT-PCR test, will be allowed to enter the Assembly premises.

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