House panel reports: AP cautioned on ATRs

HYDERABAD, April 29: In an important ruling, Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker Y Ramakrishnudu yesterday made it clear that the go...

HYDERABAD, April 29: In an important ruling, Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker Y Ramakrishnudu yesterday made it clear that the government should invariably furnish action taken reports ATR to the House on all the reports of the House committees within a period of six months after their submission. Delivering his ruling in the House, he announced that hereafter either a body of members or himself would be reviewing all the action taken reports submitted by the government. Non-compliance of the directions would be viewed seriously, he warned the government.

He gave the ruling in response to the request made by Congress Legislature Party deputy leader Gade Venkata Reddy who complained that the government was not taking the reports submitted by the House committees seriously and there was an inordinate delay in the follow-up action on the reports.

He was referring to the fate of the report of the House committee which inquired into the encroachment of lands belonging to Mazid-e-Deendar Khan atSanga Reddy in Medak district. Revenue Minister T Devnder Goud told the House on April 17 that the government had rejected the report.

Upholding the primacy of the House committee reports, the Speaker, however, said that if the government holds a view different from the committee and expressed its inability to comply with the same, they must appraise the House of the reasons for not implementing the recommendations.

In yet another development, Ramakrishnudu today revoked suspension orders served on the two Opposition Congress legislators yesterday for 8220;physically attacking8221; ruling Telugu Desam members on the floor of the House during heated arguments over the introduction of contentious Power Reforms Bill.

As soon as the House met for the day, Congress floor leader P Janardhan Reddy appealed to the chair to revoke suspension on two of his party legislators D Nagender and T Jeevan Reddy and allow them to attend the proceedings in the House. The marathon budget session of the Assembly endstoday.

Responding to Reddy, the Speaker immediately announced revocation of suspension on the two legislators.