Why this session of Parliament will go down in history as the most productive

Eighteen bills were passed in this session of Parliament, according to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar

Parliament had 29 sittings with the Lok Sabha in session for 176 and 39 minutes. The Rajya Sabha sessions lasted 138 hours. The Lok Sabha's productivity was 114 per cent while in the Rajya Sabha it was at 92 per cent. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said this session will go down as a golden chapter in Parliamentary history of the country.

For the first time in Indian legislative history, all financial businesses of the government including the Finance Bill, Demands for Grants and the Appropriation Bill had been disposed of before the beginning of the new financial year, Kumar said.

In the Lok Sabha, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan disposed of 560 starred questions, of which 136 were taken up for oral answers. In the Rajya Sabha there were 205 zero-hour submissions, 76 special mentions, 435 starred and 4,629 unstarred questions.

Among the bills passed were the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill; Enemy Property (Amendment & Validation) Bill; Constitution (SC) Orders (Amendment) Bill; Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill; HIV & AIDS (Prevention & Control) Bill; Employees Compensation (Amendment) Bill; Central GST Bill; Integrated GST Bill; Union Territory GST Bill; GST (Compensation for Loss of Revenue) Bill; Mental Healthcare Bill; Payment of Wages (Amendment) Bill; Finance Bill.

However, the bill to facilitate the new backward classes commission faced a three month delay as the opposition forced the government to refer to a committee. The opposition also scuttled the move to introduce the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill in the Rajya Sabha. The opposition leaders said that it had not been listed in the day's business.

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