Legislative assembly session begins today

PANAJI: Governor Shivinder Singh Sidhu will address the 12th session of the 5th legislative assembly due to begin at 11.30am on Monday. The 5-day session is scheduled to end on February 4, 2011.
Legislators have piled over 900 legislative assembly questions, both starred and un-starred, to be answered by the ministers in the short session. About five government Bills and five private members' resolutions will be put up at this assembly session, sources in the legislature department said.
The North Goa district magistrate has issued an order under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, prohibiting the assembly of five or more persons within 500 m of the assembly complex, Porvorim, and the area under Panaji police station in view of the assembly session.
The order prohibits the assembling of five or more persons, carrying of firearms or weapons of offence such as lathis, swords, daggers or spears, burning of fire crackers near petrol pumps and at the venues of meeting, etc, the use of loudspeakers and shouting of slogans in any public places, streets, roads, square, thoroughfares, bylanes or in any open space.
Public servants on duty, bona fide marriage or funeral processions or other such special occasions are exempted from the restrictions. However, prior permission in writing will have to be obtained from the district magistrate/additional district magistrate/sub divisional magistrate concerned, to carry out any procession.
The order will remain in force from 9am on January 31, 2011, till the assembly session ends on February 4, 2011.