Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu underwent COVID-19 take a look at at the moment (File)
New Delhi:
Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has undergone a COVID-19 take a look at forward of the monsoon session in Parliament, knowledgeable the Vice President’s Secretariat on Sunday.
The secretariat additional knowledgeable that it’s obligatory for all members of the Higher Home to bear a COVID-19 take a look at earlier than attending the session.
“Making ready himself to preside over the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament starting on September 14, 2020, Chairman, Rajya Sabha, M Venkaiah Naidu underwent COVID-19 take a look at at the moment. It’s obligatory for every member to bear COVID-19 take a look at (RT-PCR) earlier than attending the upcoming session, in accordance with an advisory issued to all Rajya Sabha members,” the Vice President Secretariat mentioned in an announcement.
As per the secretariat’s assertion, the members have been requested to get their take a look at achieved inside 72 hours earlier than the graduation of the session at any hospital/laboratory authorised by the federal government or at Parliament Home Advanced.
The secretariat additional mentioned that with a purpose to guarantee social distancing norms, the Rajya Sabha chamber, galleries, and the Lok Sabha chamber will likely be used to seat members–57 of whom will likely be accommodated within the chamber and 51 in galleries of Rajya Sabha. The remaining 136 will likely be seated within the chamber of Lok Sabha. In all, there are 244 members and one seat is vacant.
“4 giant show screens within the chamber will present the members talking and there will likely be seamless dwell telecast of the proceedings on Rajya Sabha TV. As well as, six smaller show screens and audio consoles have been put in within the 4 galleries,” the assertion learn.
Numerous Parliamentary papers together with Checklist of Enterprise, Bulletins, Payments/ and ordinances can be despatched to members solely by way of an digital mechanism. Members can entry their portal accounts. “Accordingly, the circulation of onerous copies of those papers is being discontinued. Members might convey their e-Reader units to the Home to consult with the Parliamentary papers or carry print-outs of the identical for his or her use,” it added.
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