As the Budget session of Parliament resumes on Monday, following a break, with pre-Covid timings, the Rajya Sabha will get 19 hours of additional time for business over the earlier schedule. Both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will sit simultaneously from 11 am in view of the decline in Covid-19 cases.
The Rajya Sabha will sit from 11:00 am till 6:00 pm during the scheduled 19 sittings, while it sat from 10:00 am till 3:00 pm during the first part of this session.
With this increase in sitting time of one hour per sitting, Rajya Sabha will get 64 hours 30 minutes for transacting the government’s legislative business and taking up issues of public importance during the second part of the session.
The House will have four days for Private Member’s business. Question Hour will continue to be for one hour while the Zero Hour, which was curtailed to half an hour during the first part, will now be for full one hour per sitting.
The first part of this Budget session concluded on February 11, 2022 and had a total of 10 sittings. The House reporting productivity was 101.40 per cent.
The Budget Session is set to resume after a recess of one month.
During the 30-day recess after the first part of Budget Session, the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committees (DRSCs) examined the demands for grants of various ministries and departments. Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu is likely to give an account of the working during this recess of the 8 DRSCs of Rajya Sabha in the House on Monday.