The monsoon session of the Telangana Legislature is all set to commence on October 27. The State Government communicated its decision to convene the monsoon session to the Legislature Secretary V. Narasimha Chary after a high level meeting convened by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. The announcement follows the expiry of the October 29 deadline for the conduct of the session within six months from the date of adjournment of the last session sine die .
The duration of the session would be decided by the Business Advisory Committee which will meet on October 26 and the State government had communicated its readiness to hold the session for 15 to 20 working days so that issues of immediate public importance, as also the Government’s action in resolving some pending issues could be discussed.
The Chief Minister reportedly wants both the houses of Legislature - the Assembly and the Council - in session for the same duration so that the Council could also discuss the issues that figured in the Assembly. “The Government is prepared to allow meaningful discussion on all issues of public importance. Ministers should come prepared to give replies to the questions raised by the opposition parties,” the Chief Minister is understood to have told the participants who included several Ministers and the government’s principle advisor Rajiv Sharma.
Mr. Rao recalled the spree of development and welfare activities launched by the government and said the Treasury Benches should use the session as a platform to effectively take the government’s achievements to the people. Doubts of the members should be cleared and their suggestions should be considered for making the schemes more effective.
He wanted detailed discussion on the government’s initiative to make Telugu compulsory up to intermediate level as part of efforts to promote mother tongue while discussions should also be held on the arrangements that were being made for the World Telugu Conference to be held here. Members should be given opportunity to raise their issues and the government should be prepared to allow detailed deliberations on the issues raised by them.
The Chief Minister is learnt to have expressed concern over delay in the Centre’s response to some key resolutions passed by the legislature including women’s reservation, bifurcation of the High Court, enhancement of reservations to Muslims in education and employment, IT exemption to employees of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited and setting up of All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Telangana.
The session should pass the resolutions again and send them to the Centre if need be for mounting pressure on it to expedite decisions on the key policy matters, he said.
