Sangsad Bhaban, Jul 3 (UNB)- The third session of the 12th Parliament, which is also the Budget Session, that started on June 5 was prorogued after 19 working days.
 
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury read out the prorogation of the President at 09:05pm.
 
Finance Minister AH Mahmood Ali placed the Tk 7.97 lakh crore budget on June 6 while the Finance Bill 2024 was passed on June 29 and the budget for 2024-25 fiscal on June 30.
 
Some 228 MPs discussed the proposed budget for 38 hours and 25 minutes. Of the total number, the number of ruling party members is 172 (29 hours and 12 minutes) and 56 opposition and Independent MPs (9 hours and 13 minutes).
 
Some seven bills have been passed in this session.
 
A total of 117 questions were received for the Prime Minister while she answered 67 questions.
 
The session received 2300 questions for different ministries while the number of the answered questions was 1522.
 
Under the call attention notice, some 105 notices were submitted while none of the notices was discussed in Parliament.
 
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