Polity

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said each homes can have five-hour sessions every with Question Hour and zero Hour. Rajya Sabha can sit from 9 am to 2 pm, and Lok Sabha from 4 pm to 9 pm.

Question Hour

·        The first hour of each parliamentary sitting is slotted for this. It is regulated according to parliamentary rules and presiding officers of both the homes are the final authority for conducting the question hour.

·         During now, the members raise queries and also the ministers typically provide answers.

·         Questions also can be asked to personal members of the house. The queries area unit of three kinds, namely, starred, unstarred and short notice.

·        Starred question (distinguished by an asterisk)- this needs an oral answer and hence supplementary queries will follow.

·        Unstarred question- this needs a written answer and therefore, supplementary questions cannot follow.

·        Short notice question is one thats asked by giving a notice of but ten days. It is answered orally.

·        Question Hour in each homes is stayed all days of the session. however there are two days once an exception is created.

·         When the President addresses MPs from each homes. The President’s speech takes place at the start of a brand new Lok Sabha and on the primary day of a brand new Parliament year.

·        On the day the finance minister presents the Budget.

Zero Hour

·        Unlike the question hour, the time of day isnt mentioned within the Rules of Procedure.

·        Thus its an informal device out there to the members of the Parliament to boost matters with none previous notice.

·        The time of day starts right away once the question hour and lasts till the agenda for the day (ie, regular business of the House) is preoccupied. In different

·        words, the time gap between the question hour and also the agenda is thought as zero hour.

·        It is an Indian innovation within the field of parliamentary procedures and has been existing since 1962.