Rajya Sabha Attendence

Over a dozen Opposition parties attended a strategy meeting called by the Rajya Sabha Opposition leader, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge; and later walked out in sync over the government's refusal to discuss the India-China clashes.

The Rajya Sabha secretariat on Monday returned to biometric attendance after it was suspended for over two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Parliament records show Justice Gogoi has an attendance of less than 10 per cent in the Rajya Sabha since he became a member last year.

In his just-published memoir, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, former Chief Justice of India, defended his decision to join the Rajya Sabha 4 months after retiring from the Supreme Court, a move that had come in for widespread criticism.

The Vice President "never attends such ceremonies organized in the Central Hall of Parliament as a matter of convention," the Rajya Sabha Secretariat said on Monday, responding to reports about the November 14 function in parliament.

Seventy-eight percent of Rajya Sabha members attended the proceedings of the House daily, a study conducted by the House Secretariat showed.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said that members should make it a point to be present in the House to enhance understanding of parliamentary procedures and also use the library facility.

Members of Parliament (MPs) will require COVID-19 negative reports of themselves, their family members and other close contacts to attend the upcoming monsoon session, beginning September 14.

The MPs attending Parliamentary Standing Committee meetings will have to sit six feet apart, and not more than two witnesses from the ministry concerned can appear before the panel at a time.

As many as 95 MPs did not attend even a single meeting of the parliamentary standing committees that reviewed allocations for different ministries post-presentation of the Union Budget for the 2020-21 fiscal, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said Monday.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday tore into the Modi government's handling of the economy, saying it was close to collapse and has been attended by "very incompetent doctors."

A week after Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu pulled up MPs of both Houses for low attendance at parliamentary standing committee meetings, the Lok Sabha recorded poor turnout figures this morning

Expressing concern over low attendance of members in the meetings of parliamentary panels, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has urged leaders of political parties to ensure their members are regularly present in the meetings of the Department Related Standing Committees (DRSCs) and in the House as well, sources said on Monday.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday pulled up MPs of both Houses for their low attendance in parliamentary standing committees' meetings and urged the leaders of all political parties to ensure "quantitative and qualitative functioning" of these panels.

Former union minister P Chidambaram walked out of Delhi's Tihar jail this evening, hours after being granted bail by the Supreme Court in the INX Media case. As he stepped outside, he was greeted by a group of Congress leaders including his son Karti Chidambaram. Mr Chidambaram said he cannot comment on the case as per Supreme Court's order, but ev...

Over a dozen Opposition parties attended a strategy meeting called by the Rajya Sabha Opposition leader, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge; and later walked out in sync over the government's refusal to discuss the India-China clashes.

The Rajya Sabha secretariat on Monday returned to biometric attendance after it was suspended for over two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Parliament records show Justice Gogoi has an attendance of less than 10 per cent in the Rajya Sabha since he became a member last year.

In his just-published memoir, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, former Chief Justice of India, defended his decision to join the Rajya Sabha 4 months after retiring from the Supreme Court, a move that had come in for widespread criticism.

The Vice President "never attends such ceremonies organized in the Central Hall of Parliament as a matter of convention," the Rajya Sabha Secretariat said on Monday, responding to reports about the November 14 function in parliament.

Seventy-eight percent of Rajya Sabha members attended the proceedings of the House daily, a study conducted by the House Secretariat showed.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said that members should make it a point to be present in the House to enhance understanding of parliamentary procedures and also use the library facility.

Members of Parliament (MPs) will require COVID-19 negative reports of themselves, their family members and other close contacts to attend the upcoming monsoon session, beginning September 14.

The MPs attending Parliamentary Standing Committee meetings will have to sit six feet apart, and not more than two witnesses from the ministry concerned can appear before the panel at a time.

As many as 95 MPs did not attend even a single meeting of the parliamentary standing committees that reviewed allocations for different ministries post-presentation of the Union Budget for the 2020-21 fiscal, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said Monday.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday tore into the Modi government's handling of the economy, saying it was close to collapse and has been attended by "very incompetent doctors."

A week after Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu pulled up MPs of both Houses for low attendance at parliamentary standing committee meetings, the Lok Sabha recorded poor turnout figures this morning

Expressing concern over low attendance of members in the meetings of parliamentary panels, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has urged leaders of political parties to ensure their members are regularly present in the meetings of the Department Related Standing Committees (DRSCs) and in the House as well, sources said on Monday.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday pulled up MPs of both Houses for their low attendance in parliamentary standing committees' meetings and urged the leaders of all political parties to ensure "quantitative and qualitative functioning" of these panels.

Former union minister P Chidambaram walked out of Delhi's Tihar jail this evening, hours after being granted bail by the Supreme Court in the INX Media case. As he stepped outside, he was greeted by a group of Congress leaders including his son Karti Chidambaram. Mr Chidambaram said he cannot comment on the case as per Supreme Court's order, but ev...