Anil Nair

(anil@prsindia.org) May 27, 2014

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Vital Stats

Goa Goa Goa Goa Legislative Legislative Legislative Legislative AssemblyAssemblyAssemblyAssembly 2012012012012222----13131313 The tenure of the sixth Goa Legislative Assembly commenced in March 2012. The Assembly sat for 24 days in two

sessions in 2012 and for 39 days in three sessions in 2013.

In 2013, the Assembly sat for 39 days

Days of sitting of the Assembly

� The Constitution does not mandate a minimum number of

sitting days for the Assembly; it only mandates that a session

be held every six months.

� Over the last ten years, the Assembly sat for an average of 26

days a year. In the same period, the Lok Sabha sat for an

average of 68 days.

� The Assembly recorded the highest number of sitting days in

the last 10 years, at 39 days.

� Till May 2013, the sixth Assembly sat for a total of around

303 hours in four sessions.

Health, Home, PWD and Revenue Departments got a fourth of the Questions

� Starred Questions are questions to be answered orally by

Ministers during Question Hour. Answers to Unstarred

Questions are submitted in writing to the House.

� A total of 2,453 Starred and 4,132 Unstarred Questions were

raised in the four sessions till May 2013.

� Around 11 per cent of Starred Questions were answered

orally.

Tax and Appropriation Bills made up more than half the Bills passed

� Of the 40 Bills passed by the current Assembly till May

2013, 52 per cent pertained to taxes or were Appropriation

Bills.

� Nine percent of the Bills passed related to land and road

Development.

� Three Bills - The Goa Succession, Special Notaries and

Inventory Proceeding Bill, 2012, The Goa Land Use

(Regulation)(Amendment) Bill, 2012 and The Goa

Commission for Minorities Bill, 2012 - were referred to

Select Committees.

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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Goa Lok Sabha Delhi Kerala

Health

7% Home

6% PWD

6%

Revenue

5%

Others

76%

Taxes and

Appropriation

52%

Salaries of

members

9%

Human

Development,

4%

Land and Road

Related, 9%

Administration

9%

Others

17%

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Most Bills were passed with little discussion

� Excluding Appropriation Bills, the Assembly passed 32 Bills,

which were taken up together for discussion and passing in

five days.

� Almost all Bills were passed within three days of

introduction.

� On average, each Bill was discussed for four minutes.

Over 75 per cent of the Members participated in the Budget discussion

Member participation in Budget Discussion

� As in Parliament, the Assembly usually does not have time to

discuss the budgetary proposals of each ministry (Demands

for Grants). Demands of only a few ministries are discussed at

length. The rest are ‘guillotined’, i.e. put to vote without any

discussion.

� The Goa Assembly discussed the Budget for over six and a

half hours in 2011 and 2013.

� The Assembly discussed the Demands for Grants for over 70

hours in 2013-14.

Average attendance for the sixth Assembly was over 98 per cent

Members’ Attendance for the 6th Assembly (till May 2013):

*Excludes data for Ministers, Speaker and Leader of Opposition

� Over 84 per cent of the Members recorded an attendance of

95 per cent and above during the sixth Assembly.

� Only one Member recorded attendance less than 90 per cent.

Note: All data till May 2013, as provided by the Goa Assembly

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No. of Bills Avg time per Bill (mins)

19

23

2011-12 2013-14

100% Attendance

32%

Between 95% - 99%

52%

Between 89% - 94%

16%