The Haryana government will move an official resolution to withdraw the contentious Haryana Control of Organised Crime Bill, 2020, in the monsoon session of the Legislative Assembly that commences Monday afternoon. In the business advisory committeeтАЩs meeting, it was decided that the session would continue till August 10.
According to the state government, certain discrepancies were pointed out by the Union ministries of law and justice, finance and the revenue department after which it decided to withdraw the Bill. A revised Bill would be moved later, according to the government.
It will be an тАШe-Vidhan SabhaтАЩ, wherein the members of the House will use tablets instead of reading the sessionтАЩs proceedings on paper. A mock-training session would also be held for the members around noon.
In July, after inaugurating the two-day workshop of National e-Vidhan Application (NIVA) at Panchkula, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that тАЬalthough there will be hesitationтАЭ in adopting tablets initially, тАЬslowly the MLAs will become proficient in using the technologyтАЭ. The e-Vidhan Sabha, Khattar added, will also prove useful from an environmental point of view as the system will make Vidhan Sabha paperless, тАЬsaving lots of paper and treesтАЭ.
тАЬe-Vidhan Sabha will prove to be a milestone. Today, the whole world is moving towards digitisation. If we want to move with the new generation, then we have to use computers and information technology. Through NIVA, we can see the functioning of not only Haryana Vidhan Sabha but Lok Sabha as well as Vidhan Sabhas of other states. Along with this, you will also be able to compare the work of other assemblies. Big paper bundles of bills, notifications, question-answers etc. to be introduced in the Assembly used to be carried, but now all these will be present on the screen of our tablet,тАЭ Khattar had said.
The Congress, led by Opposition leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will hold a legislature party meeting before the session commences to decide its strategy for the three-day monsoon session.
Hooda had said: тАЬThe Congress shall be proposing at least seven adjournment motions and nine calling-attention motions to hold a discussion on the floor of the House on the issues related to unemployment, illegal mining, utilisation of panchayat funds, law and order situation in Haryana and also on Agnipath scheme. We shall also be raising the issue of HaryanaтАЩs share in Panjab University at Chandigarh. The state government will be questioned on all these issues of public importance on the floor of the House.тАЭ
Two of these Calling Attention Motions shall be taken up in MondayтАЩs proceedings.
Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA from Ellanabad Abhay Chautala too said that the government would be answerable on several issues, especially the rising unemployment rate in Haryana. тАЬThe CMIEтАЩs recent report claimed that the unemployment rate in Haryana was over 30 per cent. The chief ministerтАЩs statement refuting CMIE figures is condemnable,тАЭ Chautala said.
Citing statistics тАУ 20,839 of 71,069 posts in the police department are vacant; 9,046 of 23,607 health department posts are vacant; 44,924 out of 1,49,624 posts in the education department are vacant etc. тАУ Chautala said he had presented these figures in the Vidhan Sabha too. тАЬThere are various other departments in which thousands of posts are lying vacant, as on date. The truth is that the unemployment rate in Haryana is rising phenomenally. The government recruitments that BJP introduced in the past eight years, majority of such recruitments are stuck in courts of law,тАЭ he added.
Congress rebel MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi will not be present in the session after he had recently resigned from the party and joined the BJP necessitating a bypoll in the Adampur constituency of Hisar district.
