Rajya Sabha panels improve performance, Venkaiah Naidu writes to chiefs to enhance attendance

Rajya Sabha Chairman M.Venkaiah Naidu has urged chairpersons and members of eight parliamentary standing committees to work towards ensuring attendance at over 50% as he highlighted that the panels have shown improvement in working hours. The functioning of the eight Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committees of Rajya Sabha has improved substantially with 15% increase in attendance and more than 16% improvement in the average duration of meetings since their reconstitution in September, 2019 over that of the previous two years.