The monsoon session of the Odisha Assemb✱ly will commence from July 2, a notification issued by the Assembly secretariat said. The notification said the 10th session of the 16th Assembly will start on July 2 a🎀nd will continue till August 4.
State Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will pr✅esent the full-fledged Budg✱et for 2022-23 on the first day of the session. The monsoon session will get a new Speaker as S N Patro has already resigned and senior BJD leader B K Arukha on Friday filed his nomination paper for the Speaker’s election on June 13.
A full-fledged Budget could not be presented this year because of the panchayat and urban local body polls in February and March respectively. The vote-on-account was required for meeting the expenditure on salary, pension, interest, calamities expenditure, and other ongoing schemes and programmes. There will be 24 business days 🌸during the session.
(With PTI inputs)
