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130 crore rupees of your taxpayer money was wasted by our netas in the past few days.
From the report
130 crore rupees of your taxpayer money was wasted by our netas in the past few days. You've probably seen the videos of opposition and NDA MPs shouting slogans, confronting each other inside parliament, even facing off at the gates. It's a shameful spectacle, not just because these are elected representatives of the world's largest democracy, but because it is us who pay the price for it. Let's see how. The monsoon session ran for 19 sitting days, and PRS calculates productivity against 6 scheduled hours per sitting, excluding lunch. So that's 114 scheduled hours for each house. The Lok Sabha function for just 15% of that time, that means 85% or about 96.9 hours was unutilized. The Rajya Sabha function for 33%, meaning 67% or about 76.4 hours was unutilized. Together, that is roughly 10,397 minutes of scheduled parliamentary time that wasn't used for its job. Now, there is an important caveat here. There is no absolute way to calculate the actual cost of running parliament but a widely cited estimate based on figures given by former Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal in 2012 puts the cost at 2 lakh rupees per minute when both the houses are sitting Using that benchmark the unused time comes to roughly 130 crore rupees 130 crore rupees of your taxpayer money Now that a notional cost not literally rupees 130 crore that can be taken out of the treasury and shown as…
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130 crore rupees of your taxpayer money was wasted by our netas in the past few days.
“Politics can't become so polarized and acrimonious for votes that debate itself becomes impossible.”From the report
130 crore rupees of your taxpayer money was wasted by our netas in the past few days. You've probably seen the videos of opposition and NDA MPs shouting slogans, confronting each other inside parliament, even facing off at the gates. It's a shameful spectacle, not just because these are elected representatives of the world's largest democracy, but because it is us who pay the price for it. Let's see how. The monsoon session ran for 19 sitting days, and PRS calculates productivity against 6 scheduled hours per sitting, excluding lunch. So that's 114 scheduled hours for each house. The Lok Sabha function for just 15% of that time, that means 85% or about 96.9 hours was unutilized. The Rajya Sabha function for 33%, meaning 67% or about 76.4 hours was unutilized. Together, that is roughly 10,397 minutes of scheduled parliamentary time that wasn't used for its job. Now, there is an important caveat here. There is no absolute way to calculate the actual cost of running parliament but a widely cited estimate based on figures given by former Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal in 2012 puts the cost at 2 lakh rupees per minute when both the houses are sitting Using that benchmark the unused time comes to roughly 130 crore rupees 130 crore rupees of your taxpayer money Now that a notional cost not literally rupees 130 crore that can be taken out of the treasury and shown as…
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