Lok Sabha records 114% productivity as Budget session of Parliament ends

The Budget session of Parliament came to an end two weeks before schedule on Thursday. Despite this, the Lok Sabha recorded 114 per cent productivity during the session.

Commencing with an address by the President on January 29, the fifth session of the seventeenth Lok Sabha consisted of 24 sittings that lasted a total of 132 hours.

In a media briefing, the opposition Congress party criticised the central government for cutting short the budget session.