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Union Budget session starts tomorrow with Covid-19 protocols in place Union Budget 2022-23

Union Budget session starts tomorrow with Covid-19 protocols in place

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 30 Jan 2022, 07:59 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Budget session will start from tomorrow and last for 79 hours during which the government will conduct legislative business and pass the Finance Bill, the Rajya Sabha secretariat said today.

There will be 27 sessions and each session would be one hour less due to Covid-19 protocols and staggered sitting arrangements.

In the first session, discussions on the motion of thanks to the President and the general Budget will be held.

On the first day, on Monday, President Ramnath Kovind will address both the houses.

On the second day, the Union Budget for 2022-23 will be presented in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman.

The first part of the Budget session will have 10 sittings between January 31 and February 11 while 19 sittings will be held in the second part between March 14 and April.

Zero Hour will be reduced by half to 30 minutes for Rajya Sabha while the upper House will have a total of 13 hours 30 minutes for raising issues of public importance.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Vice-Presiden M Venkaiah Nadu has convened a meeting of leaders of parties and groups on Monday at 5 pm to discuss the agenda for this Budget session.

This will be the sixth session of Parliament since the outbreak of the Covid-19  pandemic in January 2020.

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