The Budget session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly will commence from Thursday.

According to the schedule, the House will sit for five hours every day and on special days, the session will be stretched up to seven hours.

The state budget will be presented on February 22.

The session will be held in two phases — from February 18 to 27 and from March 12 to April 9.

Assembly Speaker Surya Narayan Patro told reporters: “There will be Question Hour and Zero Hour during the session. However, all those who attend the budget session will have to undergo Covid testing, be it MLAs, Assembly staff and journalists.”