 "Monsoon session: Vital stats")
1% of Parliament's productive time spent on legislative business
- 2nd least productive Parliament session in 15 years
- Rajya Sabha productivity was 9% during this session. In the past 15 years, this is the second least productive session, the worst being Winter Session 2010
- This productivity is in sharp contrast to Budget Session 2015, the most productive session in the past 15 years. During that session, Rajya Sabha had a productivity of 101%
- Both Houses did not function in the first two weeks of the Monsoon Session. However, Lok Sabha began functioning midway through the session and reached a productivity level of 48% by the end of the session
- Rajya Sabha did not pass any Bill in this session. The time taken to introduce six private member Bills accounts for its time on legislative business
- In comparison, the Lok Sabha spent 17% of its productive time on legislative business, and 45% on non-legislative business