Lok Sabha Question No. 5071 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-24
Subject: Sittings of Parliament
Ministry: PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS
Asked by: Ravneet Singh

- (a) No sir,
- (b) Question does not arise.
- (c) Information is placed at annexe.
- (d) As  per  per  Article  85  of  the  Constitution  of  India  '...six  months  shall  not intervene between its last sitting in one session and the date appointed for its first sitting in the next session.' The duration of a Session is decided keeping in view the  exigencies  of  government  business  to  be  transacted  in  both  the  Houses  of Parliament.

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## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-5071 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.07.2019

## SITTINGS OF PARLIAMENT

## 5071. SHRI RAVNEET SINGH BITTU:

Will the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether the Government proposes to increase the sittings of Parliament;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c) whether the Government is aware that between 2014 and 2019 Parliament has functioned the least in any given five years period; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof and the remedial measures taken in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS; AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE HEAVY INDUSTRIES AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISES

## (SHRI ARJUN RAM MEGHWAL)

## NUMBER OF SITTINGS OF LOK SABHA AND RAJYA SABHA SINCE 1952

| Year   | Number of sittings   | Number of sittings   | Year   | Number of sittings   | Number of sittings   |
|--------|----------------------|----------------------|--------|----------------------|----------------------|
| Year   | Lok Sabha            | Rajya Sabha          | Year   | Lok Sabha            | Rajya Sabha          |
| 1      | 2                    | 3                    | 1      | 2                    | 3                    |
| 1952   | 103                  | 60                   | 1953   | 137                  | 100                  |
| 1954   | 137                  | 103                  | 1955   | 139                  | 111                  |
| 1956   | 151                  | 113                  | 1957   | 104                  | 78                   |
| 1958   | 125                  | 91                   | 1959   | 123                  | 87                   |
| 1960   | 121                  | 87                   | 1961   | 102                  | 75                   |
| 1962   | 116                  | 91                   | 1963   | 122                  | 100                  |
| 1964   | 122                  | 97                   | 1965   | 113                  | 96                   |
| 1966   | 119                  | 109                  | 1967   | 110                  | 91                   |
| 1968   | 120                  | 103                  | 1969   | 120                  | 102                  |
| 1970   | 119                  | 107                  | 1971   | 102                  | 89                   |
| 1972   | 111                  | 99                   | 1973   | 120                  | 105                  |
| 1974   | 119                  | 109                  | 1975   | 63                   | 58                   |
| 1976   | 98                   | 84                   | 1977   | 86                   | 70                   |
| 1978   | 115                  | 97                   | 1979   | 66                   | 54                   |
| 1980   | 96                   | 90                   | 1981   | 105                  | 89                   |
| 1982   | 92                   | 82                   | 1983   | 93                   | 77                   |
| 1984   | 77                   | 63                   | 1985   | 109                  | 89                   |
| 1986   | 98                   | 86                   | 1987   | 102                  | 89                   |
| 1988   | 102                  | 89                   | 1989   | 83                   | 71                   |
| 1990   | 81                   | 66                   | 1991   | 90                   | 82                   |
| 1992   | 98                   | 90                   | 1993   | 89                   | 79                   |
| 1994   | 77                   | 75                   | 1995   | 78                   | 77                   |
| 1996   | 70                   | 64                   | 1997   | 65                   | 68                   |
| 1998   | 64                   | 59                   | 1999   | 51                   | 48                   |
| 2000   | 85                   | 85                   | 2001   | 81                   | 81                   |
| 2002   | 84                   | 82                   | 2003   | 74                   | 74                   |
| 2004   | 48                   | 46                   | 2005   | 85                   | 85                   |
| 2006   | 77                   | 77                   | 2007   | 66                   | 65                   |
| 2008   | 46                   | 46                   | 2009   | 64                   | 63                   |
| 2010   | 81                   | 81                   | 2011   | 73                   | 73                   |
| 2012   | 73+1                 | 73+1                 | 2013   | 63                   | 63                   |
| 2014   | 67                   | 64 72                | 2015   | 72 61                | 69 61                |
| 2016   | 70                   |                      | 2017   |                      |                      |
| 2018   | 63                   | 65                   | 2019*  | 10                   | 10                   |

+1 Special Session

*    Till 16 th  Lok Sabha