Parliament’s Monsoon Session hits lowest productivity since 2016, but passes 11 Bills: Infographics

The Monsoon Session of the Parliament concluded on August 13, 2026 (Thursday) with the productivity of the session in both Houses taking a hit due to a multitude of disruptions.

A total of 11 Bills were passed despite the productivity of the Lok Sabha hitting a low of 15% — equalling the House’s lowest productivity, recorded during the Winter Session in 2016 — and that of the Rajya Sabha being 33%, the lowest for the Upper House since the Budget Session in 2023 (24%), according to PRS Legislative Research.

Repeated disruptions over the Opposition’s protests on the NEET paper leak, the alleged theft of donations to the Ram Temple, Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s absence from Parliament, among other issues, affected the productivity of the Houses.

However, a total of 11 Bills were passed during the Monsoon Session, with nine of them not being discussed or debated by even a single MP in the Lok Sabha. Seven Bills were passed in the Lok Sabha in five minutes or less. These Bills were debated for at least 40 minutes in the Rajya Sabha, as shown in the graphic below. Only the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, was discussed in detail — for around 11 hours in the Lok Sabha and almost seven hours in the Rajya Sabha.

In the Rajya Sabha, however, discussion on the Bills was limited, with MPs getting only a limited amount of time. “For example, 16 MPs spoke on the Bill amending the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, but the total time taken was only 50 minutes. Each MP spoke for an average of three minutes,” according to PRS Legislative Research’s analysis.

In the seven sessions of the 18th Lok Sabha held since 2024, five saw several Bills being introduced that were not on the agenda, as shown in the graphic below.

The share of Bills that were introduced and passed in the seven sessions since 2024 also reached a high of 92% this Monsoon Session, as shown in the graphic below.

This Monsoon Session also had the lowest Question Hour efficiency since 2019. Question Hour, held between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m., functioned for less than 1% of the allotted time in the Lok Sabha, with only nine minutes being utilised out of the more than 1,000 minutes allocated between July 20 and August 13. In the Rajya Sabha, the functioning was around 12%, with two hours being utilised, as shown in the chart below.

Chart: PRS

Two of the 380 questions were answered orally in the Lok Sabha, while 16 of 285 were answered orally in the Rajya Sabha.

Chart: PRS