Budget Session 2018 of Parliament concludes

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New Delhi : The Budget Session 2018 of Parliament, which commenced on January 29, 2018, was adjourned sine die on April 6, 2018. In between both parts of the session, both Houses also adjourned for recess for a period of 23 days on February 9, 2018, to reassemble on March 5, 2018, to enable Departmental Standing Committees to examine and report on the Demands for Grants relating to various Ministries/Departments.

Addressing the media here on April 6, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals & Fertilizers, Ananthkumar, along with Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Statistics & Programme Implementation, Vijay Goel, and Minister of State for Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and Parliamentary Affairs  Arjun Ram Meghwal, informed that the first part of the Budget Session had a total of 7 sittings of Lok Sabha and 8 sittings of the Rajya Sabha.  In the second part of the Session, there were 22 sittings of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.  During the entire Budget Session 2018, there were in total 29 sittings in Lok Sabha and 30 sittings of Rajya Sabha.

Ananthkumar also informed that during this Session 5 Bills (in Lok Sabha) were introduced. Five Bills were passed by Lok Sabha and 1 Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha. Total number of Bills passed/deemed to have been passed by both Houses of Parliament is 4.

The productivity of Lok Sabha was approx. 134% and that of Rajya Sabha was approx. 96% during the first part. During the second part of the Budget Session 2018, the productivity of Lok Sabha was approx. 4% and that of Rajya Sabha was 8%.  The productivity of for the complete Budget Session 2018 of Lok Sabha was 23% and that of Rajya Sabha was 28%, said Ananthkumar added, according to aPIB release.

This being the first Session of the year, the President addressed both Houses of Parliament on January 29, 2018. Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address in Lok Sabha was moved by Rakesh Singh and seconded by Pralhad Venkatesh Joshi.  This item engaged the Lok Sabha for 10 hrs 43 minutes against allotted 10 Hours.   In Rajya Sabha, it was moved by  Amit Shah and seconded by Dr Vinay P. Sahasrabuddhe. It engaged the Rajya Sabha for 12 hrs 45minutes against allotted 12 hours.   Motions of Thanks were discussed and adopted by the two Houses during the first part of the Session.

The Session, being the Budget Session, was mainly devoted to transaction of Financial Business.   During the first part of Session, the Union Budget for 2018-19 was presented on  February 1, 2018. General Discussion on the Union Budget was held in both Houses.  This engaged the Lok Sabha for 12 hours 13 minutes against allotted 12 hours and Rajya Sabha for 9 hours 35 minutes against allotted 12 hours.