Outgoing Madhya Pradesh Assembly Sat For Just 16 Days In A Year
NDTV
The speaker, parliamentary affairs minister and leader of the opposition had low attendance, a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms revealed.
The outgoing 15th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is leaving behind some numbers that its members will not be proud of. Not only did the Assembly sit for an average of only 16 days a year - compared to 27 days in the previous term and 33 in the term before that - its speaker, parliamentary affairs minister and leader of opposition had low attendance.
Also, despite Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan stating in a written reply that nearly 78,000 children in the state were found to be malnourished in the first three months of this year, women and child development accounted for the lowest number of questions asked in the Assembly.
Out of the 29,484 questions asked in the Assembly, the highest number (2,205) were on urban development and housing, followed by panchayat and rural development (2,056) and revenue (1,997). The number of questions asked on women and child development, in contrast, was just 735.
