Notices of questions for the Thirteenth Session will be received with immediate effect. As per the Hon’ble Speaker’s directions in view of the three week long session, the last date of receipt of questions and the date of balloting have been so arranged as not to cause any possible dislocation of the business of the House.

ALLOTMENT OF DAYS FOR ANSWERING QUESTIONS DURING THE THIRTEENTH SESSION(RULE 37):

The sittings of the House to be held on Friday, the 28^th March 2008 and 4^th April 2008 have been allotted for Private Members Business.   

The last date of receipt of notices of Private Member’s Bills and Resolutions for Friday, the 28^th March 2008 is 13 ^th March 2008 up to 3.00 PM and the last date of receipt of notices of Private Member’s Bills & Resolutions for the Friday,4th April 2008 is 20th March 2008 up to 3.00 P.M.

The balloting shall take place at 4.00 P.M on same day in the room of Secretary. Members are welcome to participate in balloting.

PROCEDURE OF NOTICES:  

(a)    Kind attention of the members is invited to Rule 258 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Legislative Assembly which reads as follows:  

(1)    Every notice required by the rules shall be given in writing addressed to the Secretary and signed by the member giving notice, also indicating his division number, and shall be delivered in the Notice Officer between such hours as notified from time to time, on every day except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.  

(2)    A notice received in the Notice Office after the hours other than those specified in sub-rule (1) shall be treated as given on the next working day.  

(b)    Every notice should be signed in ink by the Member giving the notice, indicating his division number and name in Capital letters and should be deposited in the Assembly Notice Office. THE NOTICE OFFICE IS LOCATED IN ROOM NO. 46 (Next to the Room of the Hon’ble Minister of Social Welfare). 

(c)    All notice delivered in the Assembly Notice Office are date-stamped and the time of receipt is also indicated thereon.

(d)    As the Assembly Notice Office is alone responsible for transmission of the notices to the Branches/Officers concerned without delay, Members are, therefore, requested not to deposit their notices either at the Table of the House or with any other Officer/Branch of the Assembly Secretariat. If any Members do so, it is not likely to be taken note of.

(e)    The Assembly Notice Office shall remain open during office hours.

VISITOR'S GALLERY:

    As per direction of Hon’ble Speaker, Application forms for the issue of visitors’ gallery passes must be submitted by 5.00 P.M. on the working day previous to the date for which the gallery passes are required. For example, application for the gallery passes meant for sitting of the House on 17.03.2008 will be accepted up to 5.00 PM on the earlier working day i.e, 14 .03. 2008(15.03.2008 and 16.03.2008 being holidays). Similarly, an application for gallery passes for the subsequent dates would be processed and issued in the like manner.

    The seating capacity in the visitors’ gallery being limited, not more than two passes shall ordinarily be issued to a member for each sitting. No admission cards for the Visitors Gallery will ordinarily be issued on the same day.

    Members are requested to recommend issue of gallery pass only for those visitors whose antecedents are well known to them.  

Siddharath Rao

Hon’ble Members are informed that the last date of receiving the notices of questions for 24th March 2008 is 7th March, 2008 at 3.00 P.M. and balloting will be held at 5.00 P.M. instead of 6th March, 2008(being Mahashivratri, Gazetted Holiday).

Kindly note the change schedule for receiving the notices of questions mention as under:

Sl. No.	Groups of Departments	Date of Sitting	Last date for receipt of questions for the Department in col.2(Up to 3.00 PM)	Date of holding ballot for determination of priority for oral questions(At 5.00 PM)
	Medical & Public Health, Health and family Welfare, Public Relations, Gurudwara Administration and Elections, Labour, Irrigation & Flood Control, Industries & Water	24th Mar. 08Monday	7th Mar. 08Friday	7th Mar. 08Friday
		1st April 08Tuesday	14th Mar. 08Friday	14th Mar. 08Friday

Siddharath Rao