The 16th Lok Sabha has on Tuesday passed 109 bills while the Parliament has passed 97 bills since the budget session of the year 2014 by the PM Modi government at the rule.
While when comparing this, Parliament has passed 179 bills -116 legislative bills and also 63 finance and the appropriation bills-during 2009-2014 when the UPAII was in power.
On Monday, while further responding to the debate on the much awaited GST in Lok Sabha, PM Modi has mentioned that while his government was over only 100 weeks old, the lower House had cleared over 100 bills and this marks their “century”.
“This is the strength of the House and this is something which has given citizens a new confidence,” he said while further extolling the political consensus that was given by all political parties, except the AIADMK, expressing the support for the 122nd Constitutional Amendment Bill (GST).
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
Of the bills passed by both the Houses were the 70 legislative bills plus 27 finance and also appropriation bills, according to the data collected by PRS Legislative Research.
This was among the highest number of laws, which has been passed in the last two years and were in the budget session, 2016, when over 24 bills were cleared of which 16 were the legislative and 8 marked as finance bills. So far in this monsoon session, Parliament has only passed 12 bills.
Chakshu Roy, head of outreach at PRS Legislative said that “the number of bills that has been passed by Parliament could not be the only criteria of its legislative work. What further should also be taken into account is the debate and the scrutiny that bills have received while being passed by the Parliament. Whereas, some bills of the 16th Lok Sabha have not been yet referred to the standing committee, and while some others have been passed but without adequate debate in the house.”
Whereas, one of the significant bills that has been cleared by both Houses with a scant discussion was the Lokpal and the Lokayukta Amendment Bill. The bill had dropped the controversial Section 44 excluding the spouse and kids of the public servants from disclosure of their wealth.
