Chandigarh September 27:
When the state Vidhan Sabha resumes its sitting on September 29 after a four-day recess, some of the major issues facing the state, including cultural pollution by TV channels and rising incidence of fatalities on roads, will set the debate in motion in what otherwise is expected to be the stormy and eventful monsoon session.
Though the House had met on September 24 for obituary references, it will be on Wednesday afternoon that legislative business will be taken up. Two of the three calling attention notices admitted by Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon are by Virsa Singh Valtoha of the ruling SAD. The third motion is by Congress MLA from Bholath Sukhpal Singh Khaira. Valtoha wants the House to take up the problem of cultural pollution by the electronic media. Of late, lot of concern has been expressed over the telecast of indecent programmes on some of the channels.
The ruling party legislator wants some measures to check telecast of vulgarity, cult of violence, indecency and sexpletive programmes by the electronic media. Other important issue being raised by Valtoha has been about alarming increase in road fatalities. Other day, three occupants of a car were crushed to death at Doraha. The mishap took place when the car driver attempted to overtake a truck and lost control over the vehicle.
Truck driver, too, reportedly lost control over his vehicle. Such accidents and mishaps are a routine now and everyday eight to 10 persons are killed on roads in the state. Khaira in his calling attention notice will be raising the issue of floods in the state. Was the state flood control machinery activated in time to prevent flooding of areas along embankments of rivers and canals in the state?
Reports from different parts of the state point out towards lack of apathy and seriousness on the part of Irrigation and Drainage departments besides stormwater drainage control by local bodies, including municipal corporations, municipal committees and municipal councils. Besides these three notices, the Assembly will also take up seven Bills, including the Punjab State Legislature Members (Pension and Medical facilities Regulation) Amendment Bill and the Punjab Security of Land Tenures (Amendment) Bill. Amendments to the Indian Penal Code as well as the Code of Criminal Procedure would also be taken up on Wednesday.
When the state Vidhan Sabha resumes its sitting on September 29 after a four-day recess, some of the major issues facing the state, including cultural pollution by TV channels and rising incidence of fatalities on roads, will set the debate in motion in what otherwise is expected to be the stormy and eventful monsoon session.
Though the House had met on September 24 for obituary references, it will be on Wednesday afternoon that legislative business will be taken up. Two of the three calling attention notices admitted by Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon are by Virsa Singh Valtoha of the ruling SAD. The third motion is by Congress MLA from Bholath Sukhpal Singh Khaira. Valtoha wants the House to take up the problem of cultural pollution by the electronic media. Of late, lot of concern has been expressed over the telecast of indecent programmes on some of the channels.
The ruling party legislator wants some measures to check telecast of vulgarity, cult of violence, indecency and sexpletive programmes by the electronic media. Other important issue being raised by Valtoha has been about alarming increase in road fatalities. Other day, three occupants of a car were crushed to death at Doraha. The mishap took place when the car driver attempted to overtake a truck and lost control over the vehicle.
Truck driver, too, reportedly lost control over his vehicle. Such accidents and mishaps are a routine now and everyday eight to 10 persons are killed on roads in the state. Khaira in his calling attention notice will be raising the issue of floods in the state. Was the state flood control machinery activated in time to prevent flooding of areas along embankments of rivers and canals in the state?
Reports from different parts of the state point out towards lack of apathy and seriousness on the part of Irrigation and Drainage departments besides stormwater drainage control by local bodies, including municipal corporations, municipal committees and municipal councils. Besides these three notices, the Assembly will also take up seven Bills, including the Punjab State Legislature Members (Pension and Medical facilities Regulation) Amendment Bill and the Punjab Security of Land Tenures (Amendment) Bill. Amendments to the Indian Penal Code as well as the Code of Criminal Procedure would also be taken up on Wednesday.
