Kerala leads in hosting legislative sessions in 2021
Highlights:
- Kerala, which dropped to eighth place in terms of convening Assembly sessions during the initial COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, regained first place in 2021 with the nation’s longest House session at 61 days.
- The PRS Legislative Research, a think tank with its headquarters in New Delhi, published the research on the operation of State Assemblies for 2021.
- Karnataka came in second with 40 sitting days, followed by Tamil Nadu with 34, and Odisha with 43.
- The guidelines for how legislatures should operate were set forth by the National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution (2000-2002), which was presided over by former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah.
- The Houses of State/UT legislatures should convene for at least 50 days a year for those with fewer than 70 members, like Puducherry, and at least 90 days for those with more members.
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