Lucknow. The winter session of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature will begin from December 5. In this regard, the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council Secretariat has issued a notification on Friday. The Yogi Adityanath government will also present the first supplementary budget for the financial year 2022-23 during the winter session. During this brief session of three days, the government can also pass some bills.
In the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on November 16, the proposal to start the winter session of the Legislature from December 5 was approved. Pradeep Kumar Dubey, Principal Secretary of Legislative Assembly and Dr. Rajesh Singh, Principal Secretary of Legislative Council, while issuing the notification on Friday said that the third session of the Legislature will start from 11 am on Monday, December 5. Earlier, the monsoon session of the Legislature lasted from 19 to 23 September.
The Yogi government will present the first supplementary budget for the financial year 2022-23 during the winter session. During this brief session, the government will get some bills passed and will also bring replacement bills for some ordinances. Let us inform that the last session of the Legislature was monsoon which took place from 19 to 23 September.
According to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna, this session of the Legislature will probably last for three days. In this, mainly supplementary budget will be presented by the government. There will also be some legislative work. The Yogi government presented a budget of Rs 6,15,518.97 crore for the current financial year on May 29.
The Yogi Adityanath government is trying to speed up development works in Uttar Pradesh in view of the Lok Sabha elections to be held in the year 2024. Since there is still about three months left to present the budget for the next financial year, the government will bring a supplementary budget without losing time to speed up the development works. In the supplementary budget, necessary funds will be arranged for the ongoing schemes and projects included in the priorities of the government. Funds can also be given for some new items.
