Speaker Kavinder Gupta in exercise of powers conferred upon him under Rule 16 of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly adjourned the House sine die.
Gupta expressed gratitude to the members of the House for their cooperation in ensuring smooth conduct of the Assembly proceedings.
Speaking at the conclusion of the Budget Session here this afternoon, Gupta also thanked the media, information department for providing adequate coverage to the Assembly proceedings.
He also appreciated the efforts put in by the staff of the Assembly Secretariat during the session for preparing replies as well as responses to questions of the members.
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Giving details of the business conducted during the session, Gupta said the session consisted of 17 working days consuming 80 hours and 28 minutes.
Of the total time, NC was allotted 8 hours and 45 minutes, Congress 8 hours and 31 minutes, PDP 6 hours and 11 minutes, BJP 6 hours and 43 minutes, People's Conference 50 minutes, CPI (M) 1 hour and 18 minutes and others 53 minutes.
Gupta said out of 1,054 questions, 592 were starred, 462 were unstarred, 114 were taken up and 298 supplementary questions were raised during the session.
Seven private member's bills were taken up and 2 introduced, 110 calling attention notices were received, out of which 46 were taken up, he said.
Besides 85 private members resolutions were received, 82 were admitted, 3 disallowed, 14 balloted for being taken up and 2 were taken up in the House.
810 cut motions were received, out of which 711 were listed and 99 were disallowed, he said, adding, 9 papers were also tabled in the House.
Earlier, several members including Deputy Speaker, Nazir Ahmed Gurezi, Mohammad Shafi Uri, Nawang Rigzin Jora, Abdul Rashid, M Y Tarigami, Bashir Ahmed Dar, Ajay Nanda spoke on the concluding day of the session and appreciated the Speaker for giving ample opportunities to the members to highlight and project the problems in their respective areas.