Hyderabad: The Telangana Assembly is all set to pass Appropriation Bill, 2014 on Friday. Debate on the Appropriation Bill will take place...
Hyderabad: The Telangana Assembly is all set to pass Appropriation Bill, 2014 on Friday. Debate on the Appropriation Bill will take place in Assembly in the morning and in Legislative Council during afternoon.
According to AP Reorganisation Act, the budget needed to be approved before December 2. After appropriation bills are approved on November 28, the Finance Department will be left with two to three days to complete the due formalities and send it to Governor for his final nod. Telangana government is hoping to finish this Constitutional obligation by December 1.
In view of Appropriation Bill to be introduced on Friday, debate on demands was held for over five hours on Thursday evening. More than 25 members from various parties spoke on different subjects ranging from education, Panchayat Raj, safety of women, excise, irrigation, water grid, municipality among others.
Ministers of concerned departments gave elaborate answers towards the end. TDP members were conspicuous by their absence for most of the discussion, but few MLAs turned up towards the fag end.
Congress MLA C Vamshichand Reddy criticised the government that its actions were not according to promises made in its manifesto. He pointed out that budget allocated to all universities in Telangana including Osmania was a meagre amount Rs 266 crore. The neighboring AP government allotted a massive Rs 293 crore for Andhra University itself, he said.
BJP MLA NVSS Prabhakar urged the government to waive off Motor Vehicle Tax for school and seven-seater autos now that the facility was only being implemented for goods carrier autos.
He appealed to the government to instruct RTA department to stop targetting and imposing heavy fines on autos. The BJP leader called upon the government to shift its focus to cracking a whip against private travels that were flouting rules at their will.
