Naidu's Last 3 Years See Rajya Sabha Clocking 82% Productivity
News 18The productivity of Rajya Sabha which has been steadily declining for 25 years since 1995 was reversed during the last three years of the tenure of Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, a new publication says. For the first 17 years since 1978, the annual productivity of Rajya Sabha was more than 100 per cent, while during the next 27 years, it has been so only twice, in 1998 and 2009, the publication says. For the next eight sessions, it said, the productivity of Rajya Sabha almost doubled to 82.34 per cent and it functioned for 105 per cent of the scheduled time during 2019 budget session between June and August with 35 sittings. During the 13 sessions presided over by Naidu from the 244th session, Rajya Sabha has clocked productivity of 82.34 percent for two-thirds of the total sittings enabling the reversal of declining productivity trend.