Why in the News?
At the 86th All India Presiding Officers Conference, Om Birla, Speaker of Lok Sabha, announced the initiation of the National Legislative Index (NLI).
What is National Legislative Index (NLI)?
- Proposed performance evaluation framework
- Objectively measures and compares the functioning of Parliament of India and State Legislatures
- Uses predefined indicators and data driven metrics
Examples of Predefined Indicators for NLI
Legislative functioning: Number of sittings held, Duration of sittings, Percentage utilisation of House time and Adjournments and disruption.
Aim
- Healthy competition among legislatures
- Improved efficiency and accountability
- Better quality of legislative deliberation
- People centric and outcome oriented law making
Key Features
- Objective performance metrics: Number of sittings, legislative output, committee work, utilisation of House time
- Comparative and competitive framework: Cross comparison of Parliament and State Legislatures. Best practice sharing
- Transparency and accountability focus: Public scrutiny, discipline, quality debate, citizen centric legislation
Significance
- Discourages disruptions and frequent adjournments
- Improves deliberative quality of legislatures
- Reinforces legislatures as core pillars of constitutional democracy
- Aligns institutional performance with long term national development goals
- Promotes efficient and outcome oriented governance
| [2017] The Parliament of India exercises control over the functions of the Council of Ministers through:Â
1. Adjournment motion 2. Question hour 3. Supplementary questions Select the correct answer using the code given below: (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 |
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