Oppn corners govt over lack of jobs, law and order

Neena Sharma

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Tribune News Service 

Dehradun, December 8

The Uttarakhand Assembly was adjourned sine die on the last day of the two-day winter session today.  A total of 12 Bills were passed and three reports were tabled during the session. 

The Bills passed by the House included the Transfer Bill for Government Employees to bring transparency in transfers; Uttarakhand Madrasa Education Parishad Amendment Bill (2017), Uttarakhand Shops and Establishment (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) 

Bill 2017 to boost employment generation; Uttarakhand Ground water 

(Conservation, Protection and Regulation) Bill 2017 and Uttarakhand (Uttar Pradesh Nagar Nigam 

Act-1959) Amendment 

Bill 2017. 

The House proceedings were punctuated by a series of protests by the Opposition, which repeatedly took to the well of the House after the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prakash Pant failed to provide satisfactory answers to their questions.

The Opposition attacked the BJP-led government on issues like law and order, unemployment and disbursement of financial aid to farmers whose crop were damaged in natural calamities. 

Congress MLA Karan Singh Mahra raised the issue of kidney racket and demanded stern action against a state minister’s husband whose servant had alleged that he was lured into donating kidney. Not satisfied with Prakash Pant’s reply, the Opposition created a ruckus after which the House was temporarily adjourned.

Congress MLA Manoj Rawat also demanded an explanation from the government on CSR funding norms under which the government had started work at Kedarnath. “I want to know, if the government has established norms to ensure the work under way is of good quality,” he said. 

Uttarakhand PCC chief and Congress MLA Pritam Singh claimed that the Opposition had raise several issues, but the government failed to provide satisfactory reply.