Monsoon session of Madhya Pradesh Assembly begins today

In Madhya Pradesh, the monsoon session of the State Assembly is starting from today. However, due to corona infection, the session is limited to only one day.

Arrangements have been made in all districts of the state for legislators who want to attend today's one-day session of the Legislative Assembly virtually.

Protem Speaker Rameshwar Sharma said that MLAs have been given an option to attend virtually in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Assembly officials informed that arrangements have been made at the National Informatics Centres (NIC) in every district for the legislators who will virtually participate in the proceedings of the



assembly.

The effective strength of the 230-member House has been reduced to 202 now due to deaths of three MLAs and resignation by 25 other MLAs earlier. As per the information, about 40 MLAs had tested coronavirus positive so far.

Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 cases in the state climbed up to 1 lakh 6 thousand after 2 thousand 579 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours.

As per the state health bulletin, 2 thousand 216 coronavirus patients were discharged from the hospitals yesterday taking the number of recovered cases in the state to 81thousand 374. There are now 22 thousand 300 active cases in Madhya Pradesh.