That means the Monsoon Session has 25 working days.
Out of this, there are three holidays: August 9 (Raksha Bandhan), August 15 (Independence Day) and August 16 (Janmashtami). It began on July 24 and ends on August 30, and has 28 working days. The current Monsoon Session of both the Houses of Parliament is the fifth session of the 14th Lok Sabha. ‘The loss of time through pandemonium leading to the loss of designated parliamentary business eventually also translates into substantial loss of public money,’ the report said. * The Rajya Sabha, reacting similarly to these issues, lost a whopping 46 per cent time in the corresponding 201st and 202nd sessions. * The current 14th Lok Sabha recorded 38 per cent time lost in the first two sessions, thanks to the row over the induction of ‘tainted’ members of Parliament into the UPA government and the absence of ‘absconding’ minister Shibu Soren. The figure increased to 10.66 per cent in the 12th Lok Sabha and more than doubled to 22.4 per cent between 19. * In the 11th Lok Sabha (1996 to 1998) 5.28 per cent of the total Parliament time was lost in pandemonium. Some other findings of the Coalition’s survey:
That figure is now estimated to have reached Rs 20,000 per minute. The Coalition study found that between 19-2004, the cost of running the two Houses of Parliament registered an increase from Rs 100 per minute to Rs 18,430 per minute. Six months ago, the non-governmental organisation National Social Watch Coalition published a report titled ‘Citizens Report on Governance and Development – 2006.’
The parliamentary secretariat does not have the exact figures of how much money is lost when Parliament is paralysed. “Politicians are not worried because they live by exploiting the taxpayer’s money in India,” the judge adds. “Politicians have lost the sensibility to understand that every minute they disrupt Parliament, the common man’s precious money is going down the drain,” says Justice V R Krishna Iyer, the respected, retired Supreme Court judge. Now that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance is in power, the BJP-led Opposition keeps disrupting Parliament whenever it can. When the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance coalition was in power, the Congress-led Opposition stalled Parliament on many issues. Paralysing Parliament is a favourite political weapon for Opposition parties. India loses nearly Rs 20,000 (about $400) every minute when politicians stall proceedings in Parliament. Today after reading this statistics from my hatred towards politicians has increased leaps and bounds….
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