Punjab Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Raja Basharat on Thursday said that due to lack of interest of provincial departments, there were difficulties in running the proceedings of 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 Punjab, were also present on the occasion.
Expressing deep concern over the non-attendance of assembly secretariat by focal persons to collect next day business, the minister said that Speaker Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had especially stressed on the need for improving the situation.
He urged that focal person of each department would receive the agenda of the next day from the office of law department and parliamentary affairs at the end of the daily assembly session and mark attendance in the existing register thereon.
He said that whatever the next day’s assembly business would be, the focal person would immediately bring it to the notice of his secretary and minister so that they could prepare timely answers.
