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Report on Performance of State Assemblies 2024
May 22 , 2025
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- The Indian state legislative assemblies continue to meet for less than 30 days on average.
- The Assemblies met for 28 days on average in 2017.
- The number of sitting days of Assemblies came down to 16 during the pandemic affected 2020.
- Since then, it has remained close to 20 days a year.
- The average duration of each sitting was 5 hours in 2024.
- Odisha met for the highest number of days (42), followed by Kerala (38).
- Among the larger states, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh met for 16 days of each.
- In 2024, states discussed budgets for seven days on average.
- Between 2017 and 2024, Kerala met for 44 days on average, followed by Odisha (40) and Karnataka (34).
- Article 178 of the Constitution requires the Assemblies to choose two members as the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker as soon as possible.
- However, Jharkhand has not elected one for over 20 years.
- Incidentally, the Lok Sabha too has not had a Deputy Speaker since June 2019.
- As far as bills go, states on average passed 17 of them last year.
- Of the over 500 bills passed, Karnataka passed the highest (49), followed by Tamil Nadu (45).
- Delhi passed just 1 bill, followed by Rajasthan with 2.
- Fifty-one per cent or over 250 of all bills passed, were passed within a day of introduction.
- Eight states passed all bills within a day of introduction.
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