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  • Second part of the Budget session 2022 resumes on Monday

    By IANS

    NEW DELHI: The second part of the Budget session will resume on Monday and will last until April 8, 2022.

    The House will sit from 11 am till 6 pm during the scheduled 19 sittings whereas it sat from 10 am till 3 pm during the first part of the Budget session due to Covid-19 protocols during the first part of the Budget session.

    The Rajya Sabha is likely to get over 64 hours to transact the legislative business besides taking up the issues of public importance during this part of the session.

    The second part of the Budget session is resuming after a 30-day recess and during this the ‘Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committees (DRSCs)’ examined the Demands for Grants of various Ministries and Departments.

    The Upper House will have four days for Private Member’s Business and the hour long ‘Zero Hour’ and ‘Question Hour’ to continue as usual. During the last session, the ‘Question Hour’ was reduced to half an hour because of the reduced timing of the sitting.

    Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu is likely to give an account of the working during this recess of the DRSCs of Rajya Sabha in the House on Monday.

    External Affair Minister S. Jaishankar is likely to make a statement in the Upper House on the evacuation of the Indian nationals from war torn country Ukraine under Operation Ganga.

    During the last session, the duration of the question hour was reduced to half an hour because of the reduced time of the sitting, now this will be of one hour along while the Zero Hour will be of usual one hour at the beginning of the sitting.

    Four days have been allotted for the Private Member’s Business on each Friday barring 18 March which is holiday on account of the festival.

    The first part of this budget session was concluded on February 11, 2022 with 10 sittings and the productivity of the House was 101.40 per cent.

  • Government will do whatever necessary to ensure India’s security is protected: S Jaishankar

    The minister said he has had good discussions with the visiting US Secretary of State on various global issues including on human rights, democracy, trafficking and big tech, as well as Afghanistan.

  • Lok Sabha conducts Question Hour without adjournments for first time this Monsoon session 

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday conducted Question Hour without any adjournments for the first time since the start of the Monsoon session of Parliament on July 19 despite vociferous protests by Opposition members on various issues.

    As soon as the House met for the day, Opposition members trooped into the Well as they sought to raise various issues.

    Some members were shouting slogans and displaying placards.

    From the Pegasus spyware controversy to the three farm laws, the members wanted to raise various issues during the Question Hour.

    Speaker Om Birla continued with the Question Hour despite the protests and more than ten questions related to various ministries as well as supplementaries were taken up.

    This is the first time in the current Monsoon session that the Question Hour went on without any adjournments. Since the commencement of the session on July 19, the proceedings have been repeatedly adjourned due to Opposition protests.

    On Tuesday, there were nine adjournments in the Lower House before proceedings were adjourned for the day in the evening. After being adjourned nine times, the lower house reassembled at 4.30 PM and Rajendra Agrawal, who was in the Chair, had once again taken up one matter of urgent public importance.

  • LS proceedings adjourned for 40 minutes as opposition disrupts Question Hour over farm laws

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The proceedings of Lok Sabha were adjourned for about 40 minutes till 5 PM on Thursday after Opposition members disrupted the Question Hour over the three new farm laws.

    As soon as the House assembled at 4 PM, members of the Opposition started shouting slogans against the government and the agri laws.

    Few questions related to ministry of roads and highways were replied by Union minister Nitin Gadkari.

    But as sloganeering continued, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla asked members to return to their seats.

    “Question Hour is the right of MPs…. This behaviour is not good and I again request you all to return to your seats so that the House proceedings run properly,” he said.

    Shouting slogans and showing placards are against parliamentary tradition, he added.

    But Opposition members refused to relent forcing Birla to adjourn the proceedings till 5 PM.

    Several farmer unions have been staging protests at various border points of Delhi demanding the repeal of the farm laws.

  • Lok Sabha sees two adjournments during question hour

    By ANI
    NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha witnessed two adjournments during question hour on Wednesday following the protest by opposition members over new farm laws.

    The House was first adjourned till 4.30 pm and then till 5 pm.

    Soon after the House met for the day, opposition members were on their feet protesting against the three farm laws.

    Speaker Om Birla asked them to take their seats and allow the question hour proceed. As the opposition members did not relent, he adjourned the House till 4.30 pm.

    When the House resumed its proceedings, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury demanded that separate time allocation should be made for discussion on the farmers protest on new farm laws and on the motion of thanks to the President’s Address.

    AAP member Bhagwant Mann was among opposition leaders who continued to protest. The Speaker asked him not the cause disruption and cautioned that he will be forced to take action against him.

    Amid protests, the House was adjourned till 5 pm.  

  • Lok Sabha to sit on February 13 instead of February 15, no Question Hour

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha will sit on February 13, a Saturday, instead of February 15, the Lok Sabha Secretariat said on Tuesday. The first part of the Budget Session will now end on February 13 instead of February 15.

    The decision taken unanimously by floor leaders of various parties last week has been formally notified. The LS Secretariat also said there would be no Question Hour on February 13 and the notices by members to raise questions on February 15, a Monday, would stand lapsed.

    The session began on January 29 and would end on April 8. The second part of the session would commence from March 8. With the lower house meeting on February 13 instead of February 15, the number of sittings would remain the same.