State Legislative assemblies met for average of 21 days in 2021, passed over 500 bills
FirstpostMost of these bills saw ’little legislative scrutiny’ with about half of the bills being passed within a day of their introduction, according to a legislative think tank New Delhi: State legislative assemblies met for an average of 21 days in 2021 and passed over 500 bills on a range of subjects including ones on regulating higher education, online gaming, religious conversions and preservation of cattle. Most of these bills saw “little legislative scrutiny” with about half of the bills being passed within a day of their introduction, according to a legislative think tank. The lowest number of bills were passed by Delhi – two, followed by Puducherry and Mizoram, according to the ‘Annual Review of State Laws 2021’ brought out by PRS Legislative. In 2021, 44 per cent of the bills were passed within a day of their introduction in the legislature.
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