Year Sittings Questions Bills
2017 24 2371 28
2018 16 2323 13
2019 24 2484 20
2020 7 1077 20
2021 8 1187 12
Total 79 9442 93
The Legislations….
Out of 93 Bills, 44 Bills were passed on same day
19 bills were passed in one day
9 bills wer passed in two days
Six bills were passed in three days
11 bills were passed in 4 days and
3 bills in 5 days
1 bill in 7 days
Questions asked
1 Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco 1202
2 Digambar Vasant Kamat 1137
3 Wilfred Nazareth Menino Dsa 595
4 Chandrakant Kavlekar 576
5 Ravi Sitaram Naik 560
100 p.c Attendance…
Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco
Alina Saldanha
Antonio Caetano Fernandes
Francisco Silveira
Glenn Ticlo
Carlos Almeida
Luizinho Faleiro
Nilkanth Halarnkar
Prasad S. Gaonkar
Ravi Naik
Wilfred D’sa
Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI:
Ever since this government took over the power in 2017 through the backdoor, there has been a sense of emergency in almost everything they have done without paying much hid to the consequences.
Out of 1825 days in the last five years, the State Assembly has met for just 79 days. Shocking, isn’t it?
As per the ADR report, teh assembly met for 24 days under the late Manohar Parrikar in 2017, wherein 2371 questions were asked, and 28 Bills were passed.
Similarly, in 2018, Assembly met for just 16 days; this was when Parrikar was diagnosed with the last stage of pancreatic cancer.
During this year, 2323 questions were asked, and 13 Bills were passed.
In 2019, the Dr Pramod Sawant era, Assembly was convened for just 24 days in which 2484 questions were placed, and 20 Bills were passed.
In 2020, the starting days of the COVID19 pandemic, the Assembly met for just seven days in which 1077 questions were asked, and 20 Bills were passed.
Finally, in 2021, Assembly again met for just 8 days with 1187 questions asked and 12 Bills passed.
The Legislations….
The shocking part of this government tenure is that it has tried to squeeze in the maximum business in the shortest time.
In the last five years though Assembly met for just 79 days, it passed 93 Bills @1.2 Bill per day. Strange statistics.
Out of 93 Bills, 44 Bills were passed on the same day; 19 bills were passed in one day; 9 Bills were passed in two day; Six Bills were passed in three days; 11 bills were passed in 4 days; 3 bills in 5 days and 1 bill in 7 days.
Several of the State government’s Bills have landed in controversy as they were passed in a hurry.
The Goa Bhumiputra Bill, which was passed when the Opposition walked out of teh Assembly and the Goa Lokayukta Amendment Bill, which proposed to de-power teh Lokayukta landed in major controversies.
MLA Attendance…
Out of the 40 MLAs only 11 members of the Assembly had 100 p.c attendance in the Assembly.
Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, Alina Saldanha, Antonio Caetano Fernandes, Francisco Silveira, Glenn Ticlo, Carlos Almeida, Luizinho Faleiro, Nilkanth Halarnkar,
Prasad S. Gaonkar, Ravi Naik and Wilfred D’sa.
Questions asked…
In the last five years the maximum number of questions were asked by Congress’ Curtorim MLA, Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco (1202), Digambar Vasant Kamat (1137), Wilfred Nazareth Menino Dsa (595), Chandrakant Kavlekar (576), Ravi Sitaram Naik (560).
“On average, an MLA (including MLAs elected through by-elections) from Goa Assembly has asked 205 questions, including starred questions and unstarred questions and has attended 43 out of 80 sittings held in the assembly,” the report stated.
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a non-profit public policy advocacy group and Goa Election Watch (GEW) had filed RTIs to the Goa Assembly Secretariat asking for the information pertaining to the MLAs’ performance the Legislative Assembly to draw up their report.
Goa has seen a tumultuous four and a half years with the capital city Panaji witnessing two by-elections after the initial 2017 election. First was when chief minister Manohar Parrikar, the defence minister at the 2017 elections, made elected BJP MLA Siddharth Kuncalienkar resign to continue as the chief minister. After Parrikar’s passing away in 2019, a by-election was held to fill the vacancy in which Congress candidate Atanasio Monserrate won. He later moved to the BJP along with nine others a few months after his election.
As per the ADR report, total 16 MLAs have declared liabilities of Rs 1 crore and above in their affidavits. Out of total 16 MLAs, BJP MLA from Valpoi Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane has the highest liabilities of over Rs 11 crore. He is followed by Atanasio Monserrate, Panaji BJP MLA, who has over Rs 10 crore of liabilities.
The ADR report further finds that 48 per cent of total sitting MLAs have education qualification between class 8 and 12. Total 16 per cent MLAs have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. Total 5 sitting MLAs are diploma holders in Goa.
