How to ask Parliamentary Questions in India

Parliamentary Questions is a technique of parliamentary surveillance over administration in a parliamentary democracyDemocracy It is a power word. power rests with the ordinary Citizens. Only educated people understand power. A corrupt or controlled court system can cover failure of it. The religious concept is incompatible with it. Promise to spend more from the public treasury moves to Dictatorship.. In this system, the Government is accountableAccountable The legal and political obligation of an independent institution to properly explain and justify its decisions to the citizens and their elected representatives, thereby making it responsible for fulfilling its objectives. The Supreme Court of India is not accountable to the Indian citizens and, more formally, to the Parliament. for all its acts of omission and commission to the Parliament and through the Parliament to the people. Hence, the atmosphere in the House during the Question Hour pulsates with the energizing power of democracy. In the Lok Sabha, the first hour of every sitting is devoted to asking and answering of questions and this hour is known as Question Hour.

The Question Hour starts at 11.00 A.M. and concludes at 12.00 Noon on five days in a week when the House has its sittings. No business other than questions is transacted during the Question Hour. Only oath by new members or obituary references are taken up during the Question Hour but the timeTime Where any expression of it occurs in any Rules, or any judgment, order or direction, and whenever the doing or not doing of anything at a certain time of the day or night or during a certain part of the day or night has an effect in law, that time is, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, held to be standard time as used in a particular country or state. (In Physics, time and Space never exist actually-“quantum entanglement”) taken thereon is not made good by extending the Question Hour beyond 12.00 Noon. The procedure to deal with questions is governed by the Rules 32 to 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha and Directions 10 to 18 of the Directions by the Speaker.

Types of Questions

Members have a right to ask questions to elicit information on matters of public importance within the special cognizance of the Ministers concerned. The questions are of four types:

I. Starred Questions
II. Unstarred Questions
III. Short Notice Questions
IV. Questions to Private Members

Allotment of days for Questions

For the purpose of answering question in the Lok Sabha, the Ministries and Departments of the Government of IndiaIndia Bharat Varsha (Jambu Dvipa) is the name of this land mass. The people of this land are Sanatan Dharmin and they always defeated invaders. Indra (10000 yrs) was the oldest deified King of this land. Manu's jurisprudence enlitened this land. Vedas have been the civilizational literature of this land. Guiding principles of this land are : सत्यं वद । धर्मं चर । स्वाध्यायान्मा प्रमदः । Read more have been divided into five groups — A, B, C, D & E and fixed days have been allotted to various groups of Ministries for answering questions, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, respectively. Normally on Saturdays, there is no sitting of the Lok Sabha. However, if a sitting is fixed on Saturday, there is no Question Hour on that day. Also on the day when the President of India addresses sitting of the two Houses assembled together or during the period when the session is extended beyond the scheduled programme of sittings, there is no Question Hour, unless the condition of fifteen clear days for giving notices of questions is atisfied. The grouping of Ministries for answering of questions is done in such a way that each Minister has one fixed day in the week for answering of questions in the Lok Sabha and these fixed days do not clash with their corresponding days for answering of Questions in the Rajya Sabha. If there is no sitting of the House on any of the above five days on account of holiday, the questions pertaining to the group of Ministries falling on that day are not put down for answering during that week.

Parliamentary Questions