Delay, Lack Of Management Over Topics: Delhi Speaker On Why MLAs Requested No Questions In Meeting In 2024 – News18
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The Query Hour is the preferred system obtainable to a member to boost points within the Home and elicit responses on issues of public significance
Delhi Meeting Speaker Ram Niwas Goel (waving) mentioned necessary points had been left unanswered as a result of most replies mentioned they had been exterior the Delhi authorities’s purview. (PTI)
The final time the Delhi Meeting witnessed a query hour was in December 2023. Within the 24 classes held within the yr 2024, there was no query hour — one of the crucial essential points of democracy.
Delhi Meeting Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, whereas chatting with News18, mentioned there have been two causes behind the weird phenomenon. The primary, he mentioned, was late or lack of reply from the departments because it was typically mentioned that the topic was out of the Delhi authorities’s management.
“Query Hour was being held and MLAs had been asking questions however there was no reply. The MLAs acquired fed up and stopped asking questions…There’s one more reason that Query Hour shouldn’t be held many occasions as there was no discover of 12 ‘clear’ days between the announcement of session and the precise session date,” he advised News18.
Goel added: “There are such a lot of questions round Delhi Improvement Authority (DDA), together with why land shouldn’t be being allotted. Replies usually are not coming from the income division as they are saying DDA shouldn’t be beneath them. Equally, if there’s any query round providers, the division turns it down and refuses to reply. If somebody asks questions on legislation and order, it’s mentioned this isn’t a topic of the Delhi authorities… All of the necessary points had been left behind,” he mentioned.
Delhi is a Union Territory with an meeting. The town authorities doesn’t have management over land, legislation and order and providers.
As per the official web site of the Delhi Meeting, the principles for Query and Reply state that at least 12 days’ discover is to be given in writing to the meeting secretary. ‘Clear days’ embody Saturdays, Sundays and holidays however don’t embody the date of receipt of a discover by the Secretariat.
It additionally says members have a proper to ask inquiries to elicit data on issues of public significance from the federal government. The Query Hour is the preferred system obtainable to a member to boost points within the Home.
“Rule 29 of the Delhi Meeting Guidelines states {that a} query should relate to a matter of administration for which the Authorities is accountable. Its objective needs to be to elicit data or to offer solutions of motion on a matter of public significance,” the principles learn.
In December 2023, when a three-day session was known as, 252 notices of questions had been obtained.
Since 2020, when the time period of the present meeting began, a complete of 1,095 questions have been listed. Query Hour was additionally not held in 2020 and 2021 as a result of coronavirus pandemic that had curtailed classes.
The BJP, which is in opposition within the meeting, has made calls for to incorporate Query Hour a number of occasions prior to now few weeks.
Within the 2020 meeting polls within the metropolis, Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) received 62 seats and the remaining eight had been bagged by the BJP. The time period of the present 70-member meeting is ending in February and there shall be a recent election within the subsequent few weeks.
