The budget session of Assembly will begin by February end which is a month late from three earlier budget sessions. For last three years, the State budget sessions used to start before the presentation of Union Budget, a practice introduced during the tenure of Chief Minister Raghubar Das. The budget session in 2017, 2018 and 2019 started on mid January.

However, this time it appears that Soren government will break the practice. Sources said that due to delay in expansion of Soren’s Cabinet and allocation of portfolios, the government is yet to start the process for preparing the budget.

Parliamentary affairs minister Alamgir Alam said, “The government will announce the date for budget session this week. The budget Session is likely to start by end of this month.” Alam also said that main reason behind late commencement of budget session there is huge old liabilities and the government is going through all these liabilities.

Sources said that as the budget session is longest session in Assembly involving question hours, lawmakers attending the budget session must have information about session so that they can prepare questions for the session.

Sources said that Hemant Soren’s first budget session will be held at New Assembly premises, which has come up at Kute village. On September last year, Jharkhand finally received its own Assembly building, 19 years after the State was carved out of Bihar.

The three-storied building, constructed at a cost of Rs 465 crore, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The state-of-art structure, which has come up on 39 acres, has 57,220 square metres of built-up area. The edifice has a spectacular 37-metre-tall dome.

However, on December 5 last year a fire broke out in new Vidhan Sabha Bhavan months before the start of the new session. Fire in the entire West Wing has caused major damage in four places on the first floor and second floor. The damaged areas include a bank, post office, sitting area for the members of the opposition and the chairman's chamber. All other furnishings, including chair tables, ceilings, kept in the four places were burned to ashes by the fire.

The investigating officers had claimed that sabotage was behind the fire incident. The fire officials had claimed that the fire did not break out due to short circuit of electricity wires. In short circuit there is one fire point, but the fire at new Assembly building was caused due to several fire points.