Both Houses of parliament adjourned, to reassemble on Mar 5

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New Delhi : Both the Houses of Parliament were adjourned on February 9, 2018, for recess for a period of 23 days and will reassemble on March 5, 2018.  During the recess, the Departmentally related Standing Committees will examine the Demands for Grants relating to various Ministries/Departments.The Budget Session, 2018. of Parliament commenced on January 29, 2018, and subject to exigencies of government business, will be adjourned sine die on April 6, 2018.

The first part of the Budget Session yielded a total of 7 sittings of Lok Sabha and 8 sittings of the Rajya Sabha. The productivity of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in terms of utilization of time during the first part of Budget Session is 134.61% and 96.31% respectively.

The Budget Session 2018 being the first Session of the year, President of India Ram Nath Kovind addressed the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament on January 29, 2018. The Motion of Thanks on the President Address in Rajya Sabha was moved by BJP MP Amit Shah and seconded by Dr. Vinay P. Sahasrabuddhe and in Lok Sabha it was moved by  Rakesh Singh and seconded by Prahlad Venkatesh Joshi. PM Narendra Modi replied to the debate on the Motion of Thanks to President’s Address in both the Houses. It was discussed and adopted by the two Houses during first part of the Session.

During the first part of the Session, the Union Budget for 2018-19 was presented on  February 1. General Discussion on the Budget was held in both the Houses. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley replied to the discussion on the Budget in both Houses, according a PIB release.