Shimla: On the eve of the week long monsoon session that starts on Tuesday (17.8.2010), it would be worthwhile to asses the working of our legislators in the previous session, which happened to be the 2010-11 budget session held in March-April, 2010.
Information obtained under Right To Information (RTI) only partially revealed that the Himachal Vidhan Sabha spent more than Rs 2 lakh per hour just for meeting the travelling and dearness allowance (TA/DA) expenses of 44 members during the last session that clocked 80 hours and 31 minutes of work time in 26 sittings, which included passing of the budget.
In response to a query made under RTI about overall expenditure involved in conducting the last session, the government public information officer (PIO) with General Administration Department (GAD) responded that information related to government expenditure, which included expenditures made by the ministries in responding to the various questions raised, was not available.Read Full Story
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