117 working hours wasted due to disruptions in Parliament

New Delhi, May 11 (PTI) Frequent disruptions and
walkouts in the just-concluded Budget session of Indian
Parliament led to wastage of 115 working hours out of the 385
of both the Houses.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal said the Lok
Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) lost 70 hours or 36.6
per cent of its scheduled time due to walkouts and disruptions
while Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament) lost 45
hours or 28 per cent of its time.
The session began on February 22 and ended on May 7
with a month-long recess.
"Total productive time in Lok Sabha was 138 hours or
66 per cent of scheduled time, while it was 130 hours, or 74
per cent, in Rajya Sabha," according to a report by PRS
Legislative Research, a Delhi-based think tank.
During the Winter session in 2009, the productive time
in Lok Sabha was 76 per cent and it was 88 per cent in the
Rajya Sabha.
According to the report, bedlam over issues like price
rise, 2G spectrum allocation, phone tapping, women's
reservation bill, Maoist attack in Dantewada and the IPL
controversy led to disruption of proceedings of the House for
several days.
The government could only get six of the 27 planned
bills cleared during this session, the biggest of the year.
Half of the bills were passed without discussion due to
pandemonium on issues such as price rise, women's reservation
bill and the IPL controversy, says the study.
The bills passed included the Tamil Nadu Legislative
Councils Bill 2010, the Employees State Insurance
(Amendment) Bill, 2009, and the National Green Tribunal Bill,
2009.
However, the session saw over 75 per cent attendance
by MPs in both the houses, higher than the previous session.
The average attendance by MPs in Lok Sabha was 79 per
cent, while it was 78 per cent in Rajya Sabha.
In the previous Winter session, the attendance was 66
per cent in the lower House and 68 per cent in the Upper
House, says the report. PTI SKP
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