The Rajya Sabha Friday rejected by voice vote a bill seeking setting up of a system to improve productivity of Parliament.
The Parliament (Enhancement of Productivity) Bill, 2017 was introduced by Naresh Gujaral (SAD) and the House discussed it for two and half hours.
Since, Gujaral was not present, Deputy Chairman Harivansh put the bill to vote, which was defeated by voice vote.
In his reply, Railways and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said, "All leaders and members should sit together and decide. But we cannot pass a private member bill on this."