The monsoon session of the Odisha Assembly will commence on July 2, a notification issued by the Assembly secretariat said. The notification said the 10th session of the 16th Assembly will start on July 2 and will continue till August 4.
State Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will present the full-fledged Budget for 2022-23 on the first day of the session.
The monsoon session will get a new Speaker as S N Patro has already resigned and senior BJD leader B K Arukha on Friday filed his nomination paper for the Speaker’s election on June 13.
A full-fledged Budget could not be presented this year because of the panchayat and urban local body polls in February and March respectively.
The vote-on-account was required for meeting the expenditure on salary, pension, interest, calamities expenditure, and other ongoing schemes and programs. There will be 24 business days during the session.
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