{"id":9625,"date":"2026-09-20T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/?p=9625"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:53:43","slug":"9625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/?p=9625","title":{"rendered":"The journey of democratic heritage and contemporary reforms, from pre-independence times to the modern digital Legislative Assembly, continues uninterrupted &#8211; Mr. Rout."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Secretary presents reference at Rajya Sabha programme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bhubaneswar 20.09.2026 [ADN]<\/strong>:<br>Odisha never claims its experience as complete, but is always ready to learn from the rich traditions and new innovations with a sense of professional exchange. Odisha, which got the status of a separate state in 1936, started its first assembly in 1937 with 60 members, but it has now increased to 147. Starting from pre-independence times to modern digital assembly, this journey of democratic heritage and recent reforms is continuously going on, said Assembly Secretary Shri Satyabrat Raut.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presenting his report on the \u2018Good Working Style of Odisha Legislative Assembly\u2019 at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference held in Cape Town, South Africa, Shri Raut said that during the first two years of the 17th Legislative Assembly, the House was in session for 103 days and the Legislative Assembly functioned for about 470 hours. This is the highest among all the states in India. Odisha Legislative Assembly has achieved digital transformation by adopting various reforms. Orientation programmes for newly elected and first-time members, along with study tours for school and college students, have been organized to familiarize them with democratic institutions. Giving detailed information about the functioning of various committees of the Legislative Assembly, the Secretary said that out of the total 35 committees, 10 departmental committees discuss the priorities, expenditure estimates, implementation of plans and proper utilization of resources of various departments and submit proposals for the budget, he said.<br>It is worth noting that 180 secretaries from 56 countries attended the event held in Cape Town, while Odisha Assembly Secretary Shri Raut was selected to present the reference. Secretaries from major countries like Canada, Bangladesh and Australia appreciated the reference.<br>The event was attended by 21 Assembly secretaries including Delhi Assembly Director Dr. Union Kumar and the secretaries of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar 20.09.2026 [ADN]:Odisha never claims its experience as complete, but is always ready to learn from the rich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9629,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions\/9629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agamiduniya.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}