Goa: House panel finalises biz for 4-day session from January 25

PANAJI: The Goa legislative assembly’s Business Advisory Committee (BAC) on Friday finalised the business for the four-day assembly session that commences on January 25. During the session, which will conclude on January 29 with a day’s break in between for Republic Day, the state government will introduce five bills.
Minister of legislative affairs Mauvin Godinho said the government will introduce the Goa Regulation of House Building Advance Bill, Goa Non-biodegradable Garbage Control (Amendment) Bill, Goa Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill, Goa Municipalities (Amendment) Bill, Goa Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill and Goa Taxation on Passenger and Goods (Amendment) Bill during the assembly session.
“There may be more government bills introduced in the assembly, which will be approved during the cabinet meeting on Wednesday,” Godinho told reporters after the BAC meeting.
He said that due to the pandemic the state government cannot have a very long session, but that an attempt has been made to “accommodate as much of government and private business as possible”.
“For the first time, as a special case due to pandemic, we have allowed three calling attention motions per day. Normally, as per the business rules of the House, only two calling attention motions are allowed,” Godinho said.
The minister said that members of the assembly can raise important issues and that they will have sufficient opportunity to do so.
“It has been decided that most time will be given to private members on the last say as it is the private members’ day. The government will try not to transact government business on that day,” he said.
MGP senior leader and Marcaim MLA Ramkrishna Dhavalikar said that there are several issues and that the opposition will raise all of them, including the sugar factory issue.
The opposition is expected to corner the government on the issue of double tracking, coal handling and the power transmission line, among others.