Punjab Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Raja Basharat said on Thursday that due to lack of interest of provincial departments, there were difficulties in running the proceedings of the Punjab Assembly smoothly in respect of assembly business regarding provincial departments.
He was addressing a meeting on assembly business chaired by him at the Civil Secretariat on Thursday. Focal persons of all the provincial departments nominated for the Punjab Assembly, including the law secretary of Punjab, were also present on the occasion.
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Expressing his deep concern over the non-attendance of assembly secretariat by focal persons to collect next day’s business, the minister said that Punjab Assembly speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had especially stressed on the need for improving the situation.
He said that focal person of each department would receive the agenda of the next day from the office of the law department and parliamentary affairs at the end of the daily assembly session and mark attendance in the existing register thereon.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 24th, 2021.
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