Activity - Critical Debate

Activity - Critical Debate MPs paid well, but show less productivity: citizens’ report   ‘In - , Lok Sabha worked for average of less than four hours a day during sittings in hours’   India’s parliamentarians are one of the best paid legislators across the world but they lag when it comes to performing legislative business, says the National Social Watch’s “Citizens’ Report on Governance and Development .”   “In terms of absolute amount, the value of Indian MPs’ pay and perks is higher than [that of] their counterparts in Singapore, Japan and Italy. It is four and a half times higher than that of Pakistan; and is about times higher than the per capita income of the country   Highlighting the low productivity of parliamentarians, the report points out that the nine sessions during - saw the Lok Sabha working for an average of less than four hours of work a day during its sittings in hours, which is less than two- thirds of scheduled six hours per day. In the process, about hours have been lost in disruptions and forced adjournments.