Uttarakhand budget session 2025 concludes after 5 days

On the fifth day of the Uttarakhand assembly session on Saturday, the budget of Rs 1,01,175.33 crore was passed by voice vote. The opposition had proposed budget cuts in nine items which were rejected. The proceedings of the assembly house were adjourned indefinitely late in the evening. Question hour was not held as it was an effective day. On the adjournment motion, the opposition raised issues related to education, forest, road.

The proceedings of the house started from Saturday morning. Various subjects were discussed under Rule-58 till the lunch break. After the lunch break, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Agarwal first presented budget proposals item-wise. The opposition considered the budget insufficient in nine of these items and put forward proposals for budget cuts in protest. These were also discussed item-wise.

MLAs of the ruling party also gave suggestions in this. All budget cut proposals were rejected. In the evening, the state’s tax-free budget of Rs 1,01,175.33 crore was passed by voice vote. This includes revenue of 59854.65 crores and capital expenditure of 41220.68 crores.

Budget session lasted for 37 hours 49 minutes

The budget session of the state assembly lasted for 37 hours 49 minutes this time. The proceedings of the house lasted for 15 minutes on February 18, 9 hours 23 minutes on February 19, 9 hours 40 minutes on February 20, 11 hours 51 minutes on February 21 and 6 hours 40 minutes on February 22. A total of 526 questions came including 30 short notice and 496 starred-unstarred questions.

Record of longest running of the house was made

During the budget session, a record of the house running for the longest period was made on Friday. After the lunch break on Friday, the proceedings of the house were conducted continuously for 11 hours 51 minutes by the Speaker of the Assembly Ritu Khanduri Bhushan. Earlier, on February 28 last year, she had run the proceedings of the House for 11 hours and 20 minutes. Before this, on June 11, 2002, the then Speaker Yashpal Arya had run the House for 11 hours and 11 minutes, on June 15, 2017, the then Speaker Premchand Agarwal had run the House for 04 hours and 40 minutes and Deputy Speaker Raghunath Singh Chauhan had run the House continuously for 06 hours and 45 minutes.