Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh Assemblies met for just 16 days in 2024: Report

The state Assemblies in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh met for just 16 days in 2024, lower than the national average of 20 days, showed an analysis by non-profit research group PRS Legislative Research.

The Odisha Assembly met for the highest number of days (42), followed by Kerala (38), found the organisation in a report titled “Annual Review of State Laws 2024”.

At the national level, the average number of sitting days in legislative Assemblies declined from 28 days in 2017 to 16 during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and subsequently increased to 22 in 2023 and 20 in 2024.

From 2017 to 2024, the Kerala Assembly met for 44 days on an average, followed by Odisha (40) and Karnataka (34).

Legislative Assemblies across the country met for an average of 100 hours last year, PRS Legislative Research Found. Four states and Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir (6), Nagaland (30), Punjab (34) and Puducherry (46) – held sittings for less than 50 hours. On the other hand, six states – Kerala (228), Odisha (193), Maharashtra (187), Rajasthan (187), Goa (172) and Chhattisgarh (155) – sat for over 150 hours.

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