HIMACHAL PRADESH THIRTEENTH VIDHAN SABHA

ASSEMBLY BULLETIN

STATISTICAL INFORMATION RELATING TO THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTEENTH VIDHAN SABHA HELD FROM 9th to 12th JANUARY, 2018

HIMACHAL PRADESH VIDHAN SABHA SECRETARIAT, SHIMLA – 171004.

January, 2018

HIMACHAL PRADESH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

(THIRTEENTH VIDHAN SABHA)

First Session

JANUARY, 2018

1. PERIOD OF SESSION 1. Date of summoning 01-01-2018 2. Date of beginning 09-01-2018 3. Total sittings 4 4. Total time of sittings 10 .25hrs. 5. Date of Adjournment of the House 12-01-2018

II. MEETING DAYS Time 11.00 A.M. Tuesday, the 9th January, 2018 Members to subscribe Oath or Affirmation: Shri Ramesh Chand Dhawala, Speaker pro tem

administered the oath to the newly elected members of the 13th Vidhan Sabha. The following elected Members took oath

1. Shri (29-Seraj)

2. Shri Mahender Singh (32-Dharampur) 3. Shri (18-Dharamshala) 4. Shri Suresh Bhardwaj (63-Shimla) 5. Shri Anil Sharma (33-Mandi) 6. Smt. Sarveen Chaudhary (17-Shahpur) 7. Dr. Ram Lal Markanda (21-ST –Lahaul & Spiti) 8. Shri Vipin Singh Parmar (14-Sullah) 9. Shri Virender Kanwar (45-Kutlehar) 10 . Shri Bikram Singh (11-Jaswan-Pragpur) 11 . Shri Govind Singh Thakur (22-Manali) 12 . Dr. Rajiv Saizal (54-SC-Kasauli) 13 . Shri Mukesh Agnihotri (43-Haroli) 14 . Shri (50-Arki) 15 . Shri Hans Raj (1-SC-Churah) 16 . Shri Jiya Lal (2-Bharmour) 17 . Shri Pawan Nayyar (3-Chamba) 18 . Smt. Asha Kumari (4-Dalhousie) 19 . Shri Bikram Singh Jaryal (5-Bhattiyat) 20 . Shri Rakesh Pathania (6-Nurpur)

21 . Smt. Reeta Devi (7-SC- Indora) 22 . Shri Sujan Singh Pathania (8-Fatehpur) 23 . Shri Arjun Singh (9-Jawali) 24 . Shri Hoshyar Singh (10-Dehra) 25 . Shri Ravinder Kumar (13-SC-Jaisinghpur) 26 . Shri Arun Kumar (15-Nagrota) 27 . Shri Pawan Kumar Kajal (16-Kangra) 28 . Shri Ashish Butail (19-Palampur) 29 . Shri Mulkh Raj (20-SC-Baijnath) 30 . Shri Sunder Singh Thakur (23-Kullu) 31 . Shri Surender Shourie (24-Banjar) 32 . Shri Kishori Lal (25-SC-Anni) 33 . Shri Hira Lal (26-Karsog) 34 . Shri Rakesh Kumar (27-Sundernagar) 35 . Shri Vinod Kumar (28-SC-Nachan) 36 . Shri Jawahar Thakur (30-Darang) 37 . Shri Prakash Rana (31-Jogindernagar) 38 . Shri Inder Singh (34-SC-Balh) 39 . Shri Inder Singh (35-Sarkaghat) 40 . Smt. Kamlesh Kumari (36-SC-Bhoranj) 41 . Shri Rajinder Rana (37-Sujanpur) 42 . Shri Narinder Thakur (38-Hamirpur) 43 . Shri Inder Dutt Lakhanpal (39-Barsar)

44 . Shri Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (40-Nadaun)

45 . Shri Balbir Singh (41-SC-Chintpurni) 46 . Shri Rajesh Thakur (42-Gagret)

47 . Shri Satpal Singh Raizada (44-Una)

48 . Shri Jeet Ram Katwal (46-SC-Jhanduta) 49 . Shri Rajinder Garg (47-Ghumarwin)

50 . Shri Shubhash Thakur (48-Bilaspur)

51 . Shri Ram Lal Thakur (49-Sri Naina Deviji) 52 . Shri Lakhvinder Singh Rana (51-Nalagarh) 53 . Shri Paramjeet Singh (52-Doon) 54 . Dr. (Col.) Dhani Ram Shandil (53-SC-Solan)

55 . Shri (55-SC-Pachhad) 56 . Dr. Rajeev Bindal (56-Nahan) 57 . Shri Vinay Kumar (57-SC-Sri Renukaji)

58 . Shri (58-Paonta Sahib) 59 . Shri Harshwardhan Chauhan (59-Shillai)

60 . Shri Balbir Singh Verma (60-Chopal) 61 . Shri Rakesh Singha (61-Theog) 62 . Shri Anirudh Singh (62-Kasumpti)

63 . Shri Vikramaditya Singh (64-Shimla Rural) 64 . Shri Narinder Bragta (65-Jubbal-Kotkhai) 65 . Shri Nand Lal (66-SC-Rampur) 66 . Shri Mohan Lal Brakta (67-SC-Rohru) 67 . Shri Jagat Singh Negi (68-ST-Kinnaur)

Wednesday, the10 th January, (i) Election of Speaker: 2018 Dr. Rajeev Bindal, Member of the House was unanimously elected the Speaker of Thirteenth Vidhan Sabha (ii) Governors Address: His Excellency, the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Acharya Devvrat Addressed the House.

Thursday, the 11 th January, (i) Introduction of Council of Ministers: 2018 Shri Jai Ram Thakur, Hon’ble Chief Minister introduced his Council of Ministers as Under:-

(ii) 1. Shri Mahender Singh, Irrigation & Public

Health Minister. 2. Shri Kishan Kapoor, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Minister.

3. Shri Suresh Bhardwaj, Education Minister

4. Shri Anil Sharma, MPP & Power Minister 5. Smt. Sarveen Chaudhary, Urban Development Minister 6. Dr. Ram Lal Markanda, Agriculture Minister 7. Shri Vipin Singh Parmar, Health & Family Welfare Minister 8. Shri Virender Kanwar, Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Minister 9. Shri Bikram Singh, Industries Minister.

10. Shri Govind Singh Thakur, Forest Minister

11. Dr. Rajiv Saizal , Social Justice &

Empowerment Minister.

(iii) Election of Deputy Speaker:

Shri Hans Raj, Member of the House was unanimously elected the Deputy Speaker of Thirteenth Vidhan Sabha

(iv) OFFICIAL / LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS

Motion of Thanks on Governor’s Address- Presentation and Discussion.

Friday, the 12th January, 2018 (i) OFFICIAL / LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS

(ii) Motion of Thanks on Governor’s Address- Discussion and Passing thereof.

The motion on Governor’s Address was moved on 11.1.2018, discussion held on 12.1.2018 and the motion was adopted by the House on 12.1.2018.

III. ORDINANCE LAID ON THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE :

Sr.No. Name & Description Laid on the Remarks Table

1. The Himachal Pradesh Hindu Public Religious 11-1-2018 Under the Institutions and Charitable Endowments provision of (Amendment) Ordinance,2017(Ordinance No. 4 of Article 213(1) of 2017) Constitution of promulgated on 09-10-2017

2. The Himachal Pradesh Single Window (Investment, Under the 11-1-2018 Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance,2017 provision of

(Ordinance No. 3 of 2017) Article 213(1) of

Constitution of

India

promulgated on

25-09-2017

LIST OF BILL ASSENTED TO BY THE GOVERNOR OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AND LAID ON THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE DURING THE SESSION :

Sr.No. Title of the Bill Assented Act No. with on year 1. The Himachal Pradesh University of Health Sciences 11 of 2017 Bill, 2017 (Bill No. 16 of 2017) 19-09-2017

2. The Himachal Pradesh Appropriation (No. 3) Bill, 12 of 2017 2017 (Bill No. 17 of 2017) 21-09-2017

3. The Himachal Pradesh Repealing Bill, 2017 (Bill No. 13 of 2017 21-09-2017 9 of 2017)

IV. MOTION OF THANKS ON GOVERNORS ADDRESS:

Date of Name of the Name of the Number of Number of discussion Proposer of Motion Seconder of Amendments Amendments alongwith time of Thanks Motion of tabled on the admitted taken Thanks Motion

1 2 3 4 5

11-1-2018 Shri Rakesh Shri Inder NIL NIL (4.30 hrs.) Pathania Singh

0.13 hrs. 0.5 hrs.

12-1-2013 (1.25 hrs.)

Number of Name of Number of Minister who Remarks Total Amendments Amendments Members who replied the time taken for moved in the which were took part in the debate discussion House accepted debate including including reply. Proposer and Seconder Shri Jai Ram The Motion of Thakur, Hon’ble Thanks was NIL NIL 20 Chief Minister. adopted by the House (0.35 hrs.) on 12-1-2018. Total Time 5.55 hrs.

VI. DOCUMENTS LAID ON THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE DURING THE SESSION

Sr. Description Date on Provision under which No. which laid laid

1. 2. 3. 4. 1. ह , 11.01.2018 , -III (), 309 , , 2017 : ()--(3)-3/2017 11.10.2017 08.11.2017

2. ह , 11.01.2018 ह( ), - 309 III(), , , 2017 :()--(3)- 1/2007-II 16.09.2017 22.09.2017

3. ह , , - 11.01.2018 III (), 309 , 2017 : ()--(3)-4/2010 23.10.2017 03.11.2017

4. ह , , 11.01.2018 -IV (), , 309 , 2017 : ()-- (3)-6/2017 28.09.2017 10.10.2017

5. -5 11.01.2018 ह , 2005 7

VII. STATEMENT BY MINISTERS ON MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE ETC.

(a) Received NIL (b) Admitted NIL (c) Not admitted NIL (d) Actually made in the House. NIL

Sr. By whom Made Subject Date on which No Made 1 2 3 4 NIL NIL NIL

IX. ADMISSION OF STRANGERS TO THE GALLERIES OF THE HOUSE:

1. Total No. of Cards issued :

(a) V.V.I.P. 18 (b) Speaker’s Gallery 345 (c) D.V. Gallery 20 (d) Visitor Gallery 1081 (e) Press Gallery 115 (f) Campus passes to Elect. Media NIL (g) After Question Hour NIL (h) Official Gallery 83 (i) V.I.P. Gallery 1 (j) Establishment Passes 478 (k) Duty Staff Passes 153 (l) Security Staff 155 (m) Watch & Ward Staff 71 (n) Casual Entry Passes 154 (o) Campus passes 70

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