Terming the winter session of Uttarakhand assembly as highly successful in terms of business conducted, the Speaker Premchand Agarwal said that the house functioned for 19 hours ten minutes in four days. He said that the leader of the house and chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat attended the session virtually even as he was in home isolation due to Covid-19 infection and it shows his commitment to parliamentary democracy.
Agarwal informed that a total of 485 questions were received by the assembly secretariat. Out of 120 starred questions, 21 were answered and 18 petitions were accepted in the session. He added that 54 out of 71 notices under rule 300 were sent to the government for necessary action. Agarwal said that all 15 notices under rule 58 were accepted.
