RAJYA SABHA 2 LST

The immediate result is a move to get video recordings of
Question Hour in Parliaments of New Zealand, United Kingdom
and Canada, Agnihotri said.

The New Zealand Speaker told the Conference that he takes
up as many as 72 questions during the Question Hour and the
Speaker of Canadian Parliament said he gives a member 35
seconds to ask a question.
The Rajya Sabha, which has recently made certain
far-reaching amendments in the rules to prevent collapse of
Question Hour, now wants to study them as also the practice
being followed in the United Kingdom.
This material could be useful to new members while
training them on how to ask questions during Question Hour and
how to be more effective in the least possible time, Agnihotri
said.
In order to put Question Hour to maximum use, the Rajya
Sabha Rules Committee had recently amended the rules under
which even if the mover of the question was absent, it would
be taken up.
Under this initiative, if the main questioner is absent,
the Chair will allow three other members to put
supplementaries during Question Hour, considered an important
avenue to get the government's response on various issues.
In the just concluded Winter Session, Question Hour in
the Lok Sabha collapsed on November 30 when 28 members who had
given notices for questions were absent.
Ansari had last year streamlined proceedings during Zero
Hour by restricting members to raise their mentions only for
three minutes after which the microphone will go off. PTI MS
AHM


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