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Rajya Sabha - Lowest number of sittings
January 8 , 2021
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- The Rajya Sabha sat for just 33 days in 2020, its lowest-ever tally of sittings in a year.
- Both sessions of Parliament — Budget session and the monsoon session — had to be cut short due to COVID-19 pandemic.
- The Budget session was scheduled to have 31 sittings but it was brought to a close after 23 sittings.
- Similarly, the monsoon session, which was to have 18 sittings amidst strict restrictions, could manage to have only 10.
- There are only three other occasions when the Upper House sittings were below 50 days in a year.
- They are 48 in 1999 and 46 each in 2004 and 2008.
- But during the year 2020, the annual productivity of Rajya Sabha has been 82.7%, the highest annual productivity during the last 11 years.
- A total of 39 Bills have been passed by the Rajya Sabha during 2020, including 12 during the Budget session and 27 during the monsoon session.
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