Jaipur, June 8 (IANS) The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), headed by Leader of the Opposition Tika Ram Jully, is heading on an eight-day study tour covering Leh-Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, and Haryana, from Jaipur on Monday.

The tour, which will continue until June 16, aims to facilitate on-site studies of administrative practices and enable interactions with corresponding committees of the legislative assemblies in the states and Union Territories being visited.

Committee members Suresh Dhakad, Arjun Lal Jingar, Anita Baghel, Chandrabhan Singh Chauhan, and Vishwanath Meghwal are accompanying PAC Chairman Tika Ram Jully on the visit.

The committee will stay in Leh from June 8 to June 10, where it will hold discussions on local innovations and development initiatives.

A meeting with the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh is also scheduled during the visit. On June 11 and 12, the committee will be in Jammu & Kashmir for study meetings and interactions.

Members are also scheduled to visit the Vaishno Devi shrine on June 13. The delegation will reach Amritsar on June 14 before proceeding to Chandigarh, where discussions with the Public Accounts Committees and legislative representatives of Punjab and Haryana are scheduled for June 15. The committee is expected to return to Jaipur from Chandigarh on June 16.

Jully said, “A meeting with Ladakh Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena is also scheduled during the tour. The committee will visit Jammu & Kashmir on June 11 and June 12 and will visit the Vaishno Devi Temple on June 13. Next, arrival in Amritsar is scheduled for June 14, where discussions with the corresponding committees of the Haryana and Punjab Legislative Assemblies are scheduled for June 15 in Chandigarh.”

The committee will return to Jaipur from Chandigarh on June 16, he added.

–IANS

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