Tripura: 4-day Budget session to commence on July 7

Speaking to reporters at the Assembly building, Speaker Sen said the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting was held with all members of the panel except Congress MLA Birajit Sinha, who is out of the state at the moment.

“We decided to hold the Budget session for three days but the Opposition wanted it for five days. We finally decided to conduct the session for four days. The budget would be tabled on July 7 itself. The session would remain suspended on the 8th and 9th since those are holidays, the next working day of the House would be July 10. Since July 11 is a holiday, the business will resume on July 12 and continue till July 13,” the Speaker said.

He also said that two bills – Tripura Goods and Service Tax Bill and Tripura Appropriation Bill – would be placed in the session apart from the Budget.

The first session of the 13th Tripura Assembly started on March 24 with the tabling of supplementary grants of Rs 3,065.37 crore as per custom to adjust additional expenditure incurred in the last financial year above the budget estimate of Rs 26,892.67 crore.

However, since the new government was sworn in barely 19 days before the session commenced, the government had proposed a Rs 9,066.56 crore vote on accounts for the next four months till the full-fledged budget is prepared and tabled in the House.

The northeastern state went to the polls this year, in which the BJP-led alliance returned to power but with a reduced majority.