NEW DELHI: Because the state gears up for a excessive voltage ballot, an evaluation launched on Friday on the efficiency of MLAs within the seventeenth Bihar legislative meeting exhibits that with 147 sittings unfold over 15 periods, the The meeting sat for a median of 29 days per 12 months the place MLAs requested nearly 22,500 questions. The best variety of questions had been associated to rural works, schooling and well being, experiences Ambika Pandit.As many as 99 payments had been launched and handed within the meeting over 5 years. In truth, all these payments had been handed on the identical day as their introduction. The info on periods additionally exhibits that the longest periods had been the second and fifth periods, every having 22 sittings.
The Affiliation for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Bihar Election Watch had filed RTI functions to the Bihar meeting secretariat asking for the data pertaining to the efficiency of the MLAs and the legislative meeting.Arun Shankar Prasad, a BJP MLA from Khajauli meeting constituency, requested 275 questions, the very best by any MLA, adopted by Congress MLA Manohar Prasad Singh from Manihar (231) and RJD’s Mukesh Kumar Yadav from Bajpatti who requested 230 questions. Among the many high 5, CPI(M) MP Ajay Kumar from Bibbhutipur adopted with 229 questions and RJD’s Ajay Yadav from Atri requested 226 questions.On a median, a Bihar MLA together with these elected via bye-elections, requested 179 questions, together with starred questions and unstarred questions within the Bihar meeting.