LAHORE, Oct 8: The Punjab governor has requisitioned the provincial assembly session for Wednesday (Oct 12). It will be 22nd session of the house came into being after Oct 10, 2002 general election.

Under the Constitution, the house has to meet for 70 days in a parliamentary year, starting from Nov 25, and to complete the condition it has to meet for 24 more days for the ongoing year.

The government has drafted two bills for the 22nd session. One of these is concerned with amendments in the Bank of Punjab Act and the other with registration of madressahs (seminaries).

The former bill had been cleared by the standing committee on finance in its Saturday (today’s) sitting, making way for upgrading post of the bank’s head from managing director to chairman and increasing its authorized capital from Rs2 billion to Rs10 billion.

The 21st session of the house had been prorogued on Sept 21 after just seven days as “neither the government had any business (legislative work) nor mostly MPAs were interested in its proceedings as they were preoccupied with local polls.”