No leave during Punjab budget session

By Punjabnewswire4u

CHANDIGARH, MARCH 5

The Punjab Government today issued orders not to grant leave to all officers (group A and B) during ensuing budget session of 14th Punjab Vidhan Sabha.

An official spokesman said that to ensure smooth working of budget session, the Punjab Government has issued written instructions to all department heads, Commissioners of Divisions, Deputy Commissioners not to grant leave to officers during budget session.

The official spokesman said it has come to the notice that the functioning of Vidhan Sabha gets affected due to leave of officers . It has been decided not to grant leave to the officers during the budget session.  He said that the head of department can however allow leave to officer in case of emergency by appointing substitute of the officer on leave.

Departments told to submit legislative proposals in time

  Punjab Legal and Legislative Affairs Department has asked all the departments to submit legislative proposals, which are to be submitted in the Legislative Assembly, in time.

Disclosing this here, an official spokesperson said that written instructions in this regard have been issued. He said that the budget session of the Legislative Assembly has been scheduled to commence on March 11, 2013.

The spokesperson further said that many of the departments have still not submitted their legislative proposals. He said that the department is facing much difficulty to compile the report of legislative proposals. He further said that in this backdrop, departments have been told to furnish legislative proposals in time so as the department could scrutinize the material and prepare bills to be tabled in the Legislative Assembly.