The ninth session of the ninth Jatiya Sangsad was prorogued on Thursday after running for 30 working days in the continued absence of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance.
The budget session, which began on May 22, passed eight Bills including the Constitution (Fifteenth Amendment) Bill 2011 that has scrapped the election-time caretaker government provision, and also passed the budget for FY2011-2012.
The other Bills passed in the outgoing session include the Whistle-Blower (Protection) Bill, Bangladesh Legal Practitioners and Bar Council Bill, Tax Ombudsman (Repeal) Bill, and the Dhaka Elevated Expressway Project (Land Acquisition) Bill.
Finance minister AMA Muhith placed the proposed budget for the FY2011-2012 on June 9, which was passed on June 30 after being discussed for about 50 hours.
Sources in the Parliament Secretariat said that a total of
490 call attention notices were placed in the House during the ninth session, but only 27 were accepted.
The opposition lawmakers submitted 34 adjournment motions but the speaker did not accept them as it was the budget session.
'As it is the budget session it will not be logical to accept the notices. Moreover, some of the notices can be discussed if the opposition lawmakers care to be present,' said speaker Abdul Hamid on Wednesday.
The prime minister answered a total of 72 questions in the questions-answers hours while the other ministers answered 2,144 questions during the session, said sources.
Hamid in his concluding remarks urged the BNP to attend the next parliamentary session for the greater interest of democracy.
He read out the written order given by President Zillur Rahman in regard to the conclusion of the ninth session.
Source : New Age
