Parliament goes into session today

Before the House goes into the session, the Business Advisory Committee of Parliament will sit in a meeting with Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair at 4pm on the day to fix its duration and businesses, said AM Motaher Hossen, director (PR) of the Parliament Secretariat. On September 5, President Abdul Hamid convened the session exercising the power bestowed upon him as per Article 72 (1) of the Constitution. A total of 15 bills will be discussed in the session where four bills are new and 11 bills are old. The four new bills include Bus Rapid Transit Bill 2016, Bangladesh Rural Development Academy Bill 2016 and Bangladesh National Cadet Core Bill 2016. With passing 16 bills out of the total 27, the budget session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) was prorogued on July 27 as the speaker read out the prorogation order of the president after 32 sittings of the 11th session that began on June 1.