Kohima, June 16 (MExN): The Committee on Petition of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Tuesday issued a press release detailing the prerequisites for petitions filed before the committee.
In the release which was issued through the DIPR, the committee informed that associations or institutions who desire to prefer petitions relating to redressal of public grievances may send petitions in English or Nagamese duly signed by the petitioner/petitioners with date and countersigned by a Member of the NLA, addressed to the Commissioner Secretary, Assembly Secretariat. Such petitions may be sent to the Office of the Secretary, NLA, it said.
Petitions should be in respectful and temperate language. Petitions may relate to a bill which has been published under Rule 64 or which has been introduced in the House or any matter connected with the business pending before the House.
It also includes any matter of general public interest provided that it does not fall within the cognizance of a court of law having jurisdiction in any part of India or a court of inquiry or a statutory tribunal or authority or a quasi judicial body or a Commission, matters which should ordinarily be raised in Parliament or any other State Legislature, matters which can be raised on a substantive motion or resolution or matters for which remedy is available under the law including rules, regulations, bye-laws made by the Central or State Government or an authority to whom power to make such rules, regulations etc is delegated.
Anonymous petitions and petitions raising individual grievances or trivial matters are liable to be summarily rejected, it added.
Further, it said that representations/petitions which falls in the following category will not be considered by the Committee but shall be filed on receipt in the Committee on Petition Branch, Assembly Secretariat: anonymous letter or letters in which names or addresses of senders are not given or are illegible; and endorsement copies of letters addressed to the authorities or other officers in the Assembly Secretariat other than the Speaker or the House unless there is specific request on such a copy praying for redress of the grievances.
The Committee was constituted under Rule 233 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly in February this year for a period of one year under the chairmanship of MLA Dr Chumben Murry with MLAs N Thongwang Konyak, Pohwang Konyak, Eshak Konyak, Amenba Yaden, R Khing and Dr Longrineken as Committee Members.
