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Speaker guillotines 26 demands

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JULY 28. On the penultimate day of the budget session of the Assembly today as many as 26 demands, some of them concerning important departments, were guillotined and passed without discussion.

The Speaker, K. R. Suresh Reddy, cleared all the cut-motion notices served by members, and declared these demands `passed' after subjecting them to voice vote shortly before adjourning the House for the day.

The demands for which the Chair used the guillotine were Panchayat Raj, Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Rural Development, Excise, Home, Commercial Taxes, Revenue, Registration & Relief, Transport, Sports & Youth Services, Medical & Health, School Education, Higher Education, Technical Education, Public Enterprises, Information Technology & Communications, Tourism, Art & Culture, Industries & Commerce, Endowments, Forest, Science, Technology & Environment, Labour & Employment, Governor & Council of Ministers, Legislature, Justice, General Administration, Information & Public Relations, Fiscal Administration, Planning, Surveys and Statistics.

Debate on only 14 demands

With this, only 14 demands enjoyed clearance by the Legislature after due discussions in the past few days and the main ones in this category are Agriculture, Irrigation, SC/ST/BC Welfare, Civil Supplies, Energy, Cooperation and Housing.

The Speaker chose the penultimate day for employing guillotine as it was the last of the 18-day deadline prescribed by the Assembly rules for passing the demands after initiation of the debate on the demands. These rules leave a two-day gap after the budget presentation, another six days for a general discussion on the budget, and prescribe the next 18 days for demand-specific discussions and passing. They state that the demands should be passed before 1.30 pm on the last day.

Appropriation bills today

Accordingly, Mr. Suresh Reddy stepped in shortly before 1.30 pm replacing the panel chairman, read out the demands marked for guillotine and declared them passed following a voice vote. He adjourned the House for the day soon after.

The House will take up Appropriation Bills tomorrow before being adjourned sine die. These Bills, once passed, will enable the Government to appropriate the stated amounts for the budget from the Consolidated Fund of the State.

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