India’s Parliament concluded its Budget Session with a productivity rating of 94%, its highest in a decade, after both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha managed 18 consecutive days of substantive legislative work without a single complete washout.
Fourteen bills were passed across the session, including the Deepfake Prevention Act, a revised Medical Devices Act, the Digital Competition Bill, and two constitutional amendment bills. The session also saw the passage of supplementary demands for grants worth ₹89,000 crore.
What Changed
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla implemented a new pre-session consensus mechanism where party whips agreed on a schedule for disruptive protest adjournments in exchange for extended question hour allocations. The experiment proved more successful than most observers expected.