Kerala assembly to consider setting up ad hoc panel

Theassemblywill consider settingupan ad hoccommitteeso as to give recommendations regarding modifications in the assembly proceedings, including the inordinate delay in giving replies to the MLAs on several occasions, speaker M B Rajesh has ruled.

He said that the chair would hold discussions with the chief minister and the opposition leader and take a call in this regard.

Jacob said that on several occasions, the answers get delayed by months or even years that the relevance of the question itself would be lost by the time the MLAs receive the answers.
He said that questions asked under the RTI Act would be better answered than raised in the assembly, as the RTI Act has some penal provisions for delayed answers over a particular time frame.