The second half of the Budget Session began this week. Here are the highlights.

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Rajya Sabha reconvened today for its first sitting after it was prorogued on March 28, 2015. The members in the Upper House decided to unanimously suspend the scheduled business of the day and take up a discussion on farmers’ distress and agrarian crisis...

The Constitution (122nd) Amendment Bill, 2014 which introduces the goods and services tax was introduced in Lok Sabha today. The Bill was not listed in the original list of business for the day but was added through a supplementary notice. Several MPs protested the introduction of the Bill on such a...

Five Bills were passed by Lok Sabha, and three by Rajya Sabha this week. Three of these Bills now have the approval of both Houses. One Bill was withdrawn. In all, of the 37 Bills listed in the agenda for this Session, work on 33 is still left. In terms of productivity, Lok Sabha worked for 86% of i...

The winter session of parliament began today without any business, with 21 more sittings scheduled before 23 December. Shreya Singh at PRS Legislative Research commented that the most likely bills to be passed this session would be the ones replacing the coal mines and textile undertakings ordinance...