KATHMANDU: The ongoing budget session is ending on Thursday. The budget session had started on April 14. It had presented government’s polices and programs, endorsed the budget for the fiscal year 2019/20 and passed some important bills.
The budget session formally ends after Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara reads the letter sent by President Bidya Devi Bhandari.
The government had sent a letter to the Office of the President on Wednesday recommending the latter to end the current budget session as per the cabinet decision taken on September 17.
The Nepal’s constitution has conferred the right to call and end the federal parliament session on the president on the recommendation of the government.
Gopal Nath Yogi, member at the Parliament’s Secretariat, said that the parliament is all set to end the ongoing budget session today. “The Secretariat has received the letter from the Office of the President summoning the House meeting to prorogue the ongoing budget session. The budget session will formally end once the Speaker reads the President’s letter in the parliament today,” Yogi told Khabarhub.
Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara, earlier, hinted that no programs would be held during zero and special hours on Thursday due to the prorogation of the budget session.
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