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Rajya
Sabha sat for 2 percent of scheduled time
Monday December 13, 2010 06:52:48 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Rajya
Sabha didn't have a single full day of work during the just
concluded winter session of parliament that was adjourned sine die
on its last day Monday following relentless opposition protests
against a telecom scam.
During the entire session, only one full day of work was conducted
in the Lok Sabha (Nov 9 when the session started), and not one
such day in the Rajya Sabha.
"The Lok Sabha worked for 5.3 percent of the scheduled hours and
the Rajya Sabha for 2.1 percent," according to PRS Legislative
Research.
In the winter session, the Lok Sabha passed only two pending bills
but there were none in the Rajya Sabha.
The bills passed in the lower house relate to changing the name of
Orissa state to Odisha and alteration of the Oriya language to
Odiya.
The government also introduced nine legislative bills in either
house during the session.
There were 13 Government bills listed for consideration and
passing including those related to prevention of torture, the wakf
amendment, the anti-hijacking amendment, the right of children to
free and compulsory education amendment, the reservation for women
in panchayats and municipalities and reservation for in
legislative bodies.
But the government did manage to get parliament's nod for crucial
supplementary spending bills by voice vote, but without a debate
amid noisy protests that dominated the over month-long session.
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