Naidu’s final three years see Rajya Sabha clocking report 82 per cent productiveness

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The productiveness of Rajya Sabha which has been steadily declining for 25 years since 1995 was reversed over the last three years of the tenure of Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, a brand new publication says.

The enchancment was revealed in a publication titled ‘Rajya Sabha – 2017-22: An Overview’ introduced out by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat.

The publication is a primary of its variety giving particulars of assorted features of the functioning of Rajya Sabha in the course of the tenure of a Chairman.

It presents the functioning of the House from 1978 on, the 12 months since when all required knowledge for doing so is maintained.

For the primary 17 years since 1978, the annual productiveness of Rajya Sabha was greater than 100 per cent, whereas in the course of the subsequent 27 years, it has been so solely twice, in 1998 and 2009, the publication says.

The lowest annual productiveness was recorded in 2018 at 40 per cent, it stated.

With its decline began in 1995, the annual productiveness of the home was 95 per cent throughout 1995-97, 90 per cent throughout 1998-2003, and over 80 per cent throughout 2004-13.

The development continued until the 248th session in 2019.

It was reversed within the 249th session.

The decline in productiveness was steep in the course of the first 5 full periods (244th to 248th) presided over by Venkaiah Naidu with the home clocking productiveness of solely 42.77 %, the publication stated.

The 248th session held throughout January-February, 2019 recorded the bottom home productiveness at 6.80 per cent.

For the following eight periods (249th to 256th), it stated, the productiveness of Rajya Sabha virtually doubled to 82.34 per cent and it functioned for 105 per cent of the scheduled time throughout 2019 price range session between June and August with 35 sittings.

This has been the primary session to report such excessive productiveness in the course of the tenure of Naidu marking a break from the previous.

Thereafter, 4 extra periods clocked near or above 100 per cent productiveness.

During the 13 periods presided over by Naidu from the 244th session, Rajya Sabha has clocked productiveness of 82.

34 % for two-thirds of the entire sittings (173 of 261 sittings) enabling the reversal of declining productiveness development.

The publication lists a number of “first of a kind” initiatives taken by Naidu for the turnaround, a few of which have been: the evaluate of department-related parliamentary standing committees since their introduction in 1993 and of different committees of the home, beginning reviewing the foundations of the home, examination of the attendance of members, and their participation within the proceedings of the home.

They additionally included time allotted on completely different objects of enterprise in the home, use of Indian languages within the proceedings of the home, extent of public outreach on numerous features of the functioning of Rajya Sabha by media, and commissioning the first-ever complete examine on ‘system enchancment’ within the Secretariat and many others.

During Naidu’s tenure as Chairman, Rajya Sabha clocked over 951 working hours until the final session, dropping 26 sittings attributable to completely different waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 5 years, the eight parliamentary standing committees of Rajya Sabha held 558 conferences until this June and submitted 369 studies.

Due to common evaluate and monitoring of their functioning by Naidu, the typical length of the conferences has considerably improved with a mean attendance of over 45 per cent per assembly, the publication stated.

NEW DELHI: The productiveness of Rajya Sabha which has been steadily declining for 25 years since 1995 was reversed over the last three years of the tenure of Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, a brand new publication says.

The enchancment was revealed in a publication titled ‘Rajya Sabha – 2017-22: An Overview’ introduced out by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat.

The publication is a primary of its variety giving particulars of assorted features of the functioning of Rajya Sabha in the course of the tenure of a Chairman.

It presents the functioning of the House from 1978 on, the 12 months since when all required knowledge for doing so is maintained.

For the primary 17 years since 1978, the annual productiveness of Rajya Sabha was greater than 100 per cent, whereas in the course of the subsequent 27 years, it has been so solely twice, in 1998 and 2009, the publication says.

The lowest annual productiveness was recorded in 2018 at 40 per cent, it stated.

With its decline began in 1995, the annual productiveness of the home was 95 per cent throughout 1995-97, 90 per cent throughout 1998-2003, and over 80 per cent throughout 2004-13.

The development continued until the 248th session in 2019.

It was reversed within the 249th session.

The decline in productiveness was steep in the course of the first 5 full periods (244th to 248th) presided over by Venkaiah Naidu with the home clocking productiveness of solely 42.77 %, the publication stated.

The 248th session held throughout January-February, 2019 recorded the bottom home productiveness at 6.80 per cent.

For the following eight periods (249th to 256th), it stated, the productiveness of Rajya Sabha virtually doubled to 82.34 per cent and it functioned for 105 per cent of the scheduled time throughout 2019 price range session between June and August with 35 sittings.

This has been the primary session to report such excessive productiveness in the course of the tenure of Naidu marking a break from the previous.

Thereafter, 4 extra periods clocked near or above 100 per cent productiveness.

During the 13 periods presided over by Naidu from the 244th session, Rajya Sabha has clocked productiveness of 82.

34 % for two-thirds of the entire sittings (173 of 261 sittings) enabling the reversal of declining productiveness development.

The publication lists a number of “first of a kind” initiatives taken by Naidu for the turnaround, a few of which have been: the evaluate of department-related parliamentary standing committees since their introduction in 1993 and of different committees of the home, beginning reviewing the foundations of the home, examination of the attendance of members, and their participation within the proceedings of the home.

They additionally included time allotted on completely different objects of enterprise in the home, use of Indian languages within the proceedings of the home, extent of public outreach on numerous features of the functioning of Rajya Sabha by media, and commissioning the first-ever complete examine on ‘system enchancment’ within the Secretariat and many others.

During Naidu’s tenure as Chairman, Rajya Sabha clocked over 951 working hours until the final session, dropping 26 sittings attributable to completely different waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 5 years, the eight parliamentary standing committees of Rajya Sabha held 558 conferences until this June and submitted 369 studies.

Due to common evaluate and monitoring of their functioning by Naidu, the typical length of the conferences has considerably improved with a mean attendance of over 45 per cent per assembly, the publication stated.