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Lok Sabha loses four hours, Rs.1 crore, on day one
Tuesday November 22, 2011 09:30:35 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The loss of
four hours work in the Lok Sabha due to the bedlam over the
opposition's boycott of Home Minister P. Chidambaram on the first
day of parliament's winter session is estimated to have caused a
Rs.1 crore loss to the nation.
The disruption came despite an appeal from Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh for the session's smooth running to enable important
legislative business.
Officials of PRS Legislative Research, a policy study group, noted
that the Lok Sabha, which nornally meets for five hours day, was
in session for just about half-an-hour as it had to be adjourned
due to the pandemonium.
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned to mourn the death of two sitting
members, Ram Dayal Munda and Silvious Condapen.
As the Lok Sabha was adjourned twice, once during the Question
Hour and later for the day after noon, the house lost about four
hours of work.
A rough estimate, based on the budgetary allocation for
parliament's functioning, puts the cost of an hour's work of
parliament at Rs.25 lakh. Considering this, the exchequer lost
about Rs.1 crore.
The opposition in the Lok Sabha created a din during question hour
when Chidambaram tried to answer a query from Rashtriya Janata Dal
member Raghuvansh Prasad Singh.
Manmohan Singh, ahead of the parliament's sitting, expressed the
hope that all political parties "realise that we have important
legislations to discuss in the winter session" and that the
session runs smoothly.
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