NEW DELHI: In major changes aimed at better functioning, Lok Sabha has amended rules to prevent collapse of the Question Hour.
It has also sought to break from the past practice of banning MPs from wearing badges by now permitting them to wear tricolour in the House.
Emulating the Rajya Sabha, which recently amended rules to ensure uninterrupted proceedings during Question Hour, the Lok Sabha Rules Committee has agreed that all listed questions must be taken even if the member who tabled it was absent.
"If on a question being called it is not asked or the member in whose name it stands is absent, the Speaker may direct that the answer to it be given," the committee has said.
The committee also took a series of decisions to ensure that the proceedings of the House were not stalled for some reasons.
Amending the Rule 39(3), the committee said that if the Question Hour on any day is dispensed with for any reason, the answers to questions included in the lists of questions for oral as well as written answers for the day shall be deemed to have been laid on the Table by the ministers to whom such questions are addressed and shall form part of the proceedings of the day.
If the House does not continue with its sitting after dispensing with the Question Hour, the answers for oral as well as written answer for that day shall be deemed to have been laid on the Table after the Question Hour at the next sitting of the House and shall form part of the proceedings of that day, it said.
It has also sought to break from the past practice of banning MPs from wearing badges by now permitting them to wear tricolour in the House.
Emulating the Rajya Sabha, which recently amended rules to ensure uninterrupted proceedings during Question Hour, the Lok Sabha Rules Committee has agreed that all listed questions must be taken even if the member who tabled it was absent.
"If on a question being called it is not asked or the member in whose name it stands is absent, the Speaker may direct that the answer to it be given," the committee has said.
The committee also took a series of decisions to ensure that the proceedings of the House were not stalled for some reasons.
Amending the Rule 39(3), the committee said that if the Question Hour on any day is dispensed with for any reason, the answers to questions included in the lists of questions for oral as well as written answers for the day shall be deemed to have been laid on the Table by the ministers to whom such questions are addressed and shall form part of the proceedings of the day.
If the House does not continue with its sitting after dispensing with the Question Hour, the answers for oral as well as written answer for that day shall be deemed to have been laid on the Table after the Question Hour at the next sitting of the House and shall form part of the proceedings of that day, it said.
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