THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 11th session of the 14th legislative
assembly, exclusively devoted for legislative matters, will begin on Monday. The session will be convened for 12 days.
Speaker
P Sreeramakrishnan said as many as 17 ordinances are awaiting their turn to become Acts. “The effort will be to convert all these ordinances into Acts. In the first two days, six bills will be considered, and after that, the remaining bills will be considered on the basis of the recommendations of the business advisory committee,” he said.
The six bills that will be considered in the first two days that will be forwarded to the subject committee include Kerala Municipality (amendment) Bill, 2018; Kerala Panchayat Raj (amendment) Bill, 2018; Kerala Municipality (second amendment) Bill, 2018; Sri Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (amendment) Bill, 2018; Kerala University (amendment) Bill, 2018; and Kerala University (temporary alternate arrangement of senate and syndicate) Bill, 2018.
The discussion and voting of supplementary demands for grants for 2018-19 will be held on June 13. As per the present calendar, the assembly will not meet on June 14 and 15. The session will conclude on June
21. The swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected Chengannur MLA Saji Cherian also will be held on Monday.
Speaker said that in the past two years, the state assembly has convened for 125 days, which is much higher than the national average of 30 to 40 days. “The functioning of the assembly is a yardstick of the functioning of the government. This feat was achieved by the assembly with the complete cooperation of the treasury and the opposition benches,” he said. In this period, the assembly published seven books relating to the law making and allied matters.
He said the legislature secretariat is at present undertaking an impact study on the changes the legislature process has brought in the civil society. The speaker said the legislature secretariat has also for the first time provided opportunity for the public to make recommendations on the draft amendment bills that have been published in the gazette and are pending to become Acts, online.