Parliament & Rashtrapathi Bhavan– New Committee under Speak and Vice President to look into disruption with joint committee of all parties to bring new solutions with each house separate committee – 2 hours for Question hour (11AM, 4PM), 1 hour for national importance, Separate one hour to discuss bills, Convert 50% of the Parliament & Rashtrapathi Bhavan building to use green energy(solar panels of 200MW or more as space available on top of parliament building, solar thermal power plant up to 50MW in less space, solar heaters, wind turbines to replace water pumps, Bio Fuels to run motors, heat from motor to heat parliament during winter sessions) by 2017 and make it 100% by 2020, In-Ear Headphones for MP to hear during shouting by opposition, Option in DTH to hear Rajya Sabha and lok Sabha tv in regional languages as to what MP are speaking for common man to know without help of media or news
•The parliament has not functioned
effectively since 2010 as always the MP’s from opposition will fight with
whatever Government present at any given point of time. Please form 2
committee’s for each house under the leadership of the speaker and the vice-president
respectively to arrive at a consensus on how the parliament operates by
inviting all parties and fix issue it will be landmark.
Guidelines needs to be created on a) How notices can be taken up a wait time of
1 day instead of opposition forcing to take up matters instantaneously as no
Govt can be prepared to answer in short notice and Govt should take up notice
definitely within 48 hours but Govt should definitely reply to all notices
within 72 hours and allow for discussion for 1 and half hour maximum b) One
hour or half hour(at 12 PM) should be allocated to matters of National
importance or urgent needs mostly the agenda is set by newspapers or media to
disrupt parliament indirectly as each party has some media backing c) First
hour alone to Question hour has not helped as Question hour needs to be 2 hours
one in the morning and one in the evening at closing time as most MP’s leave
after 12 PM itself not good for country when we work for full day why MP’s
leave early and there are so many issues and in 1 hour you cant ask everything
d) Parliamentarians making loud noises or entering into well of the house must
be sent out immediately(for 2 days first, then 2 days again), if they do next
time (after 2 earlier warnings) sent out permanently for entire session. Even
in state Govt's we send out why cant parliament do that also is speaker and VP
not given powers e) Any bill likely to be passed Govt must start working
continuously with opposition and public to get feedback and not pass in hurry
f) Parliamentarians who disrupt must not be given free food in parliament
canteen g) Fixed time lines for discussion on bills should be made compulsory
for 1 hour daily at 3PM -4 PM and notice for bill draft must be shared to all
parties well ahead of parliament not at last minute that is purely intent is to
avoid discussion and pass it directly that is not fair h) MP’s will lose free
flight tickets benefits if they have disrupted the parliament even once they
can come by train. MP’s speaking too much out of turn or without notice can
also be subjected to this treatment to bring discipline and prepare well before
coming
•When govt in new pay commission has
stated that Govt employees will have performance based pay but what about MP’s
you should have that rule to self monitor
•Parliament & Rashtrapathi Bhavan need
to become green buildings (solar, bio fuel, wind) and reduce electricity
consumption significantly. The department of science and Technology is willing
to take this up as a challenge to achieve. Please generate electricity more
than peak demand at session and non session period. If both these buildings are
made green buildings it will be good signal to entire India on motive of Govt
and MP’s.
•In-Ear headphones or noise cancellation
headsets without battery for parliamentarians to hear during disruptions as
current headphones wont help hear clearly. Currently used headphones in
parliament are outdated and will cause outside noise to interfere and during
times of translations nothing can be understood and it is difficult for MP
asking and minister answering. Most noise cancellation headsets work against
noise from machines but you need to test in parliament or in crowded areas if
noise of public or MP’s wont be heard inside the ear.
•In DTH boxes some channels like National
Geographic offer the option to choose different languages for the same video
like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Hindi and English. So if the same
option is available for Rajya Sabha TV and Lok Sabha TV it will help greatly to
the public to understand what MP are speaking about for the public as the
translation services are available only for MP in parliament what about us and
the common man. The common man in a village is not able to understand what you
people are talking about he wants to know whether you discuss for him or some
matters of personal interest. So do translation options it is very easy ask DTH
operators you can use the existing translation services in parliament to extend
to all regional languages and that can be transferred over the air to all the
public. Currently media takes up only one portion of the parliament activities
and keeps focussing on that for full day based on its agenda if translation is
there we know what to hear.
•Govt should have meeting with all parties
every month to discuss any issues of national importance during non parliament
days so that parliament works fine when it approaches if you go and reach out
to opposition only one week or few days before wont help. Leave out all egos
and reach out patiently and solve issues one by one.
•All MP's discuss well in news channels
but not in parliament is something the way MP's have let down people of India
for decades now. One mistake constitution creators forgot was they did not
mention how discussion will take place other than that everything they did.
Most MP’s don’t have knowledge to discuss constructively or ask Questions
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