{"id":331325,"date":"2021-03-25T03:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331325"},"modified":"2021-03-25T03:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T09:14:20","slug":"budget-session-rajya-sabha-adjourned-sine-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/budget-session-rajya-sabha-adjourned-sine-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Session: Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331326\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Indian_parliament-_PTI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/Indian_parliament-_PTI.jpg 900w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/Indian_parliament-_PTI-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/Indian_parliament-_PTI-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/Indian_parliament-_PTI-696x348.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/Indian_parliament-_PTI-840x420.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had tested positive for COVID-19 members of the House had urged the government to shorten the sittings of the Budget session.<\/p>\n<p>While giving a brief account of the performance of the House, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said the upper house functioned for a total of 104 hours as against the total scheduled time of 116 hours.<br \/>\n&#8220;Against a total of 33 sittings scheduled, from January 29 to April 8, we are concluding it after having 23 sittings,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe Budget session provided the members of this House an opportunity to deliberate issues concerning economic growth and recovery specially in the post-COVID phase, he said.<br \/>\nBoth the houses started working simultaneously with relaxed social distancing norms during the second part of the Budget session,<br \/>\nIn the first part of the Budget session, Rajya Sabha met in the first half of the day while Lok Sabha functioned in the afternoon session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had tested positive for COVID-19 members of the House had urged the government to shorten the sittings of the Budget session. While giving a brief account of the performance of the House, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said the upper house functioned for a total of 104 hours as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,1961,36],"tags":[14003,12529,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331327,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331325\/revisions\/331327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}