1. The Arunachal Pradesh assembly’s budget session begins Friday.
2. The Annual financial statement for 2024-25 will be presented on July 24.
3. Deputy CM Chowna Mein to present the budget during the eight-day session.
Itanagar, July 18: The budget session of the Arunachal Pradesh assembly is set to begin on Friday, with the annual financial statement for the 2024-25 fiscal to be presented on July 24, an official announced.
The session will conclude on July 26.
Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein, who also holds the Finance and Planning portfolio, will present the budget on July 24 during the eight-day session, according to Assembly Secretary Kago Habung.
This will be the first budget of the Pema Khandu government after its return to power for the third term.
The session will commence with a motion of thanks to the governor’s address. Governor Lt Gen (Retd) K T Parnaik addressed the members of the House during the first session of the Eight Legislative Assembly on June 14 and 15.
Three significant government bills – ‘The Arunachal Pradesh Amending Bill, 2024’, ‘The Arunachal Pradesh Public Examination (Measures to Prevent Unfair Means in Recruitment) Bill, 2024’, and ‘The Balipara/Tirap/Sadiya Frontier Tract Jhum Land Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2024’ – will be tabled on the opening day, Habung added.
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Arunachal Assembly Speaker Tesam Pongte chaired a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee on Wednesday to plan the agenda for the budget session.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pasang Dorjee Sona, Deputy Speaker Kardo Nyigyor, and MLAs from various parties, including Congress, NCP, NPP, and the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA), attended the meeting.
All political parties in the state, except Congress, which is represented by a single MLA, extended unconditional support to the BJP government.
The ruling BJP has 46 MLAs in the 60-member House, while the NPP has five legislators, NCP three, and PPA two.
There are also three independent members.
