dear friends
Today the monsoon session of our Parliament has started. Indian Election Commission conducts elections for Parliament and state Assemblies every five years. The media hype ends after the legislators enter the Houses. Till the next elections, generally, we do not track the performance of our elected representatives. Only the high pitch debates or chaos in the Houses are being watched by us.
In order to create awareness about the tracking of the performance of our MPs and MLAs, on a regular basis, Chennai Press Club and Prime Point Foundation jointly organised a workshop at Chennai Press Club on 24th July. Senior officials from PRS Legislative Research, a Delhi based research body conducted the workshop.
Mr Era Chezhian, an eminent and well known Parliamentarian inaugurated the workshop. He expressed concern over the reduction in number of sittings of Parliament and legislative Assemblies every year. Before 1980, Parliament used to sit for more than 120 days every year. Now, it has come down to only around 60 days. Also Mr Chezhian expressed his concern over the supression of freedom of press by various Governments in India. (Last week two journalists were arrested by Tamilnadu Government for writing about the corruption in the Government and later let on bail).
We have made a podcast presentation of the workshop (13 minutes) covering the various aspects of tracking the performance of our legislators. Ms Tonusree has explained the concept. Please visit the following link to watch / listen the podcast and also the photographs.
If any journalist wants to establish contact with PRS Legislative research, they can visit www.prsindia.org or send mail to Tonusree at tonusree@prsindia.org , They will be able to help all the journalists with required data.
Srinivasan
Prime Point Foundation
91766 50273
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