In Jammu and Kashmir, the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of the J&K Legislature is likely to meet in the first week of February to finalise the business calendar for the ensuing budget session, scheduled to begin on March 3.
Our Correspondent reports, that Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha had earlier given the nod for convening the first budget session of the Legislature of the Union Territory on 3rd March during which the annual budget of J&K will be presented after six years. The LG will address the Legislature on the first day of the session.
Legislative Assembly Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather will convene a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee to finalize the duration of the budget session and also fix the date for the presentation of the budget by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who holds charge of the Finance Department. This will be for the first time that Omar Abdullah will present the budget in the Legislature as he held charge of Home, GAD and other departments during his previous stint as the Chief Minister from 2009-2014. The budget has to be approved by the Legislature before March 31. The Government had proposed a three-week session. This will be the second session of the Legislature as the first one was held from November 4-8 in Srinagar.
