Porvorim (Goa): The fortnight long of Goa Legislative Assembly proceedings will begin from tomorrow July 18, which will pass the State budget which was placed during the last session.

“The monsoon session of Goa legislative assembly will begin from tomorrow and will culminate on August 7. There will be sitting for 15 days during the session,” Speaker Pramod Sawant told reporters today.

The Speaker’s office has already received 637 starred and 1083 unstarred questions tabled by the legislators, the answers of which would be tabled during the session.

Sawant said 80 per cent of the total questions were received online while 20 per cent were given hand written.

The Question Hour would be held every morning with first two days will have discussion on Governor’s speech, while for third and fourth day there will be discussion on budget, he said.

During the session there will be discussion on demands for grants of various departments. The speaker said that two-three government bills are already received by his office while there are eight private members bills.

Sawant said that this time the entire proceedings would be paper less with legislators wont be given the question paper set instead they will have to log in through their laptop to read them.

Interestingly, the speaker’s office has not received a single question in regional languages – Konkani or Marathi during this session.
Team TNV