Tight security for Assembly budget session

Security tightened in view of Assembly budget sessions beginning from March 13.

Additional forces have been deployed in the vicinity of the Assembly and traffic will be diverted to reduce vehicular traffic on the busy Nampally-Secretariate Road and Nampalli-Lakdi-ka-pool routes. Security checks will be intensified in the backdrop of Dilshuknagar twin blasts. 

Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Saturday held a review meeting with the law and order, traffic, and intelligence wings officials on the security measures to be taken following the budget session. He enquired about the security measures. Commissioner of Police Anuragh Sharma told reporters that additional forces would be brought in in addition to increasing the local police personnel. The number of CC cameras would be increased on the premises of the Assembly.

The Budget session will be held in two phases beginning from March 13 with the state Budget for 2013-14 scheduled to be presented on March 18. The Assembly will take a three-week break from the end of this month to enable the department-related Standing Committees, being constituted for the first time, to consider the budget proposals and come up with necessary suggestions. 

About 12 Standing Committees are being formed with members of both the Council and the Assembly. After the recess, the session will reconvene in the third week of April and end in the first week of May, according to a tentative schedule. The Business Advisory Committee of the House, meeting on March 13, will fix the exact dates of the Budget session.

-Sakshipost