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| Rajya Sabha Wasted Half Its Time, |
| Rajya Sabha Wasted Half Its Time, Rs 9.9 crore, On Disruptions In Winter Session
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| INDIA
, 23-December-2015
6:16:38 AM |
| The Winter Session of Parliament which began on November 26 ended on Wednesday, with the Rajya Sabha having worked for just half of the time allotted to work.
1The Rajya Sabha where the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is in a numerical minority, lost 55 hours to disruptions by the Opposition. It was scheduled to work for 112 hours during the session.
2Parliamentary Affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the Congress came up with "manufactured lame excuses" to disrupt Parliament, day after day. "The principal opposition party in both houses has to take the blame for all that has gone wrong," he said.
3The Lok Sabha, where the BJP has a comfortable majority, worked for 115 hours - an hour extra compared to the scheduled 114 hours.
4The cost of running each House is Rs. 29,000 per minute and the loss of hours in the Rajya Sabha has resulted in a loss of nearly Rs. 10 Crore to the exchequer.
5The Lok Sabha passed 14 Bills registering 104 per cent productivity. The Rajya Sabha, however, passed nine bills registering 46 per cent productivity. The Goods and Services Tax bill, introduced in Parliament last year, remains pending in the Upper House.
6The Lok Sabha spent nearly 50 hours on non-legislative business and 33 hours on legislation,
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