{"id":60937,"date":"2019-02-22T01:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=60937"},"modified":"2019-02-22T01:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:35:02","slug":"vote-on-account-presented-in-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/02\/22\/vote-on-account-presented-in-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote-on-account presented in assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Feb 21:<\/strong> Deputy CM Chowna Mein on Thursday presented the vote-on-account for the year 2019-20 for four months from 1 April to 31 July this year.<br \/>\nThe assembly also paid tributes to the 40 martyrs of the terror attack in Pulwama in Jammu &amp; Kashmir on 14 February.<br \/>\nWith the assembly elections due later this year, Mein, who also holds the finance portfolio, presented the vote-on-account for four months to meet the state&#8217;s expenditure till a full-fledged budget is placed in the assembly.<br \/>\nThe DCM also presented the supplementary demands for 2018-19 and the report of the comptroller and auditor general for the year ended March 2017. Four government bills were also introduced on the inaugural day of the three-day assembly session.<br \/>\nHome Minister Kumar Waii introduced the Arunachal Pradesh Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill, 2019, to amend the Arunachal Pradesh Lokayukta Act, 2014.<br \/>\nWaii, who also holds the portfolio of town planning and urban local bodies, introduced the Arunachal Pradesh Municipal Corporation Bill, 2019. The bill is aimed at making a legal framework and constitutes a municipal corporation in the state.<br \/>\nTax &amp; Excise Minister Jarkar Gamlin introduced the Arunachal Pradesh Goods and Service Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2019, to amend the Arunachal Pradesh Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017.<br \/>\nEducation Minister Honchun Ngandam tabled the Arunachal Pradesh State Higher Education Bill, 2019, in order to make the Arunachal Pradesh State Higher Education Council functional.<br \/>\nSpeaker TN Thongdok condemned the Pulwama attack, saying the country would never forget the sacrifices of the CRPF jawans for the cause of the country.<br \/>\n&#8220;We salute the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country,&#8221; the speaker added. The members conveyed heartfelt condolences to the families of the martyrs and observed a two-minute silence to pay homage to the departed souls. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Feb 21: Deputy CM Chowna Mein on Thursday presented the vote-on-account for the year 2019-20 for four months from 1 April to 31 July this year. The assembly also paid tributes to the 40 martyrs of the terror attack in Pulwama in Jammu &amp; Kashmir on 14 February. With the assembly elections due later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}