Average sitting days of 15 Karnataka Assembly was only 25: ADR report
The Hindu
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly sat for only 25 days a year on average, revealed the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report ‘15th Legislative Assembly of Karnataka: Analysis of Performance of MLAs’.
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly sat for only 25 days a year on average, revealed the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report ‘15th Legislative Assembly of Karnataka: Analysis of Performance of MLAs’.
During 2018-2023, a total of 150 sittings were held and the longest session was the 12th session from February 14, 2022 to March 30, 2022. It had 26 sittings.
The ADR and the Karnataka Election Watch jointly released the report on Wednesday based on the information given by the Karnataka Assembly Secretariat and its website.
In 2018, there were 22 sittings of the Assembly, in 2019 – 18 days, in 2020 – 14 days, in 2021 – 40 days, in 2022 – 45 days, and in 2023 – 11 days.
K.S. Lingaiah, JD(S) MLA for Belur, and Channappa Mallappa Nimbannavar, BJP MLA for Kalaghatgi, had 100% attendance by attending all the 150 sittings.
With 107 days of attendance, the JD(S) topped the party-wise average attendance. The BJP had 99 days, the Congress – 95 days and Independent MLAs – 93 days.
The All-India level NEET examination was started a few years ago to counter complaints of corruption during the joint entrance examinations held at the State level. AIDSO had warned the authorities that the solution to the menace of corruption was not changing the examination system, but to investigate the corruption and punish the guilty.