Jammu: The month-long budget session of Jammu and Kashmir will begin on Monday with the ceremonial address of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in the Assembly Complex here at the Civil Secretariat.
This will be the first budget of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah led National Conference government after assuming power in October last year.
“All arrangements are in place ahead of the commencement of the budget session from March 3,” said an official.
He said that the Assembly Complex is set to welcome the legislators after a gap of around seven years.
The last budget session took place during the PDP-BJP government in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir in 2018.
Meanwhile, the National Conference and the Congress Party also convened Legislature Party meetings here to hold deliberations with party legislators.
Issues of people’s welfare, development, the bill on liquor ban, and statehood are expected to remain key highlights during the session.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who holds the Finance portfolio, will present his first budget on March 7.
Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather on February 27 chaired an all-party meeting of the legislators and sought their cooperation during the budget session.
The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union Territories after abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019.
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