Budget Session: House sets up panels, approves 3 spending Bills

CM tables JKPDCL reports

JAMMU, MARCH 27: The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Friday passed motion for constituting three key House committees and also cleared three key Appropriation Bills during the ongoing Budget Session of the House.

Earlier, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah moved motion for the election of eleven members each to the Committee on Public Accounts, the Committee on Estimates, and the Committee on Public Undertakings, in accordance with Rules 344, 346 and 349, respectively, of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.

The tenure of these committees will extend up to March 31, 2027. The motions were subsequently put to vote by Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather and were passed by the House through a voice vote.

The Chief Minister also moved the bills for consideration and passing. The bills include:

“A Bill to authorize payment and appropriation of certain further sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the services of the financial year 2025–2026” (L.A. Bill No. 04 of 2026);

“A Bill to authorize payment and appropriation of certain further sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the services of the financial year 2025–2026” (L.A. Bill No. 06 of 2026); and

“A Bill to authorize payment and appropriation of certain sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the services of the financial year 2026–2027” (L.A. Bill No. 05 of 2026).

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah also laid on the Table of the House copies of Annual Reports of Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Corporation Limited (JKPDCL) for the year 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 and 2019–20.

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