10th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards on 19th Jan 2019 at Chennai

The 10^th Edition of the Sansad Ratna Awards is scheduled to be held on Saturday, January 19^th 2019 at 3.00 pm at Raj Bhavan, Chennai.

Top performing Parliamentarians of the 16^th Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will be honoured during the event. The outstanding ‘Departmentally Related Parliamentary Standing Committee’ will also be honoured at the event. The Hon’ble Governor of Tamil Nadu, Shri Banwarilal Purohit will present the awards to the Members of Parliament.  The awardees are nominated by a Jury Committee of eminent Parliamentarians.

Looking Back

The Sansad Ratna Awards has come a long way from its first edition held in May 2010 in a modest function at the Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya, Chennai before a limited audience, through the past years in the prestigious premises of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) to the latest edition to be held in the premises of Raj Bhavan, Chennai.

It has braved several challenges over the years, especially lack of visibility and publicity and today, it stands recognised and appreciated for its credibility and positive focus of recognising outstanding performers among our country’s lawmakers and keepers.

The Sansad Ratna Awards is an initiative of Prime Point Foundation and eMagazine, PreSense, motivated by the suggestion of late Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India, who himself launched the first event via a tele-conference. 

This is the only award presented to top performing Parliamentarians in India on behalf of the ‘civil society’.

Entry to the function is only by invitation due to space constraints. However, the entire programme is being webcast live on that day from www.sansadratna.in

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Performance of Individuals, Political Parties and States in the 16th Lok Sabha upto Monsoon Session 2018

The 15^th Session of the Parliament (Monsoon Session 2018) adjourned sine die on August 10, 2018. Lok Sabha voted on a no-confidence motion which was won by the government. It also discussed issues related to the recent floods and drought in the country. Rajya Sabha discussed the final draft of the National Register of Citizens in Assam, non-implementation of the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganising Act, incidents of misuse of the social media and mob lynching.

Rajya Sabha also elected its Deputy Chairman. In addition, the supplementary demands for grants were discussed in Lok Sabha. 20 legislative Bills were introduced during the session and 18 were passed other than the two Appropriation Bills. Four Bills were withdrawn. Lok Sabha worked for 110% of the scheduled hours and Rajya Sabha for 68%.

Top Performers – Individuals

The top 5 performers of the 16^th Lok Sabha from the first session till the end of the 15^th Session (Monsoon Session 2018) are given below.  The table indicates the cumulative performance of the Members of Parliament (MPs) from the beginning of 16^th Lok Sabha.

MP	Political party	Initiated Debates (ID)	Private Members Bills (PMB)	Questions (Qns)	Total of ID+PMB+ Qns	Attendance
Supriya Sule	Nationalist Congress Party	95	19	1049	1163	96%
Shrirang Appa Barne	Shiv Sena	111	20	998	1129	94%
Rajeev Shankarrao Satav	Indian National Congress	114	19	989	1122	81%
Dhananjay Bhimrao Mahadik	Nationalist Congress Party	49	3	1042	1094	73%
Shivaji Adhalrao Patil	Shiv Sena	25	13	985	1023	68%

Source: PRS India

All the MPs are from Maharashtra

Incidentally, all the top 5 performers are from the state of Maharashtra.  They are also Sansad Ratna Awardees in the previous years.

Performance of States

The average score of the 16^th Lok Sabha till the end of the Monsoon Session per MP is 281.  Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Jharkhand have shown performance score of more than 400.  West Bengal and Jammu & Kashmir have shown poor performance.

States	MPs	Initiated debates (ID)		Sum of Private Member Bills (PMB)	Questions (Qns)		ID + PMB + Qns
		Total	Average		Total	Average	Total	Average
Maharashtra	50	1910	39.8	187	24192	504.0	26289	547.7
Tamil Nadu	39	1482	39.0	0	15032	395.6	16514	434.6
Kerala	21	1711	81.5	80	7762	369.6	9553	454.9
Jharkhand	14	730	56.2	71	4793	368.7	5594	430.3
Karnataka	28	838	32.2	8	8462	325.5	9308	358.0
Rajasthan	27	1340	49.6	78	7719	285.9	9137	338.4
Delhi	7	303	50.5	67	1705	284.2	2075	345.8
Telangana	18	575	31.9	33	4533	251.8	5141	285.6
Haryana	10	418	52.3	24	1967	245.9	2409	301.1
Madhya Pradesh	31	867	31.0	20	6635	237.0	7522	268.6
Andhra Pradesh	25	852	35.5	15	5665	236.0	6532	272.2
Gujarat	26	645	24.8	55	6107	234.9	6807	261.8
Chhattisgarh	11	211	21.1	1	2070	207.0	2282	228.2
Odisha	22	908	43.2	63	4027	191.8	4998	238.0
Bihar	41	1669	43.9	101	6221	163.7	7991	210.3
Uttar Pradesh	83	2565	33.3	101	12073	156.8	14739	191.4
Assam	15	501	33.4	8	1937	129.1	2446	163.1
Uttarakhand	5	177	35.4	28	573	114.6	778	155.6
Punjab	15	472	33.7	11	1343	95.9	1826	130.4
West Bengal	46	1142	24.8	13	3462	75.3	4617	100.4
Jammu and Kashmir	7	120	20.0	1	346	57.7	467	77.8
National		20129	37.3	999	130598	241.8	151726	281.0

Source: PRS India

States with more than 5 MPs only are taken up for analysis

Performance of Political Parties

The following table indicates the cumulative performance of the political parties in the 16^th Lok Sabha from the first Session till the 15^th Session.   Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party have shown very good performance.  They have done very well under ‘Questions’ category.  CPI (M) has done very well under ‘Debates’ category.  All India Trinamool Congress showed the poorest performance (average score for this party is 87.6 while the National average is 281). 

Out of 999 Private Members Bills, Members of Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian National Congress and Shiv Sena alone have introduced 760 bills.  Although All India Anna DMK with 37 MPs, has shown good performance with an average score of 444.7, their Members have not introduced even a single Private Members Bill. 

Row Labels	MPs	Initiated debates (ID)		Total Private Member Bills (PMB)	Questions		ID + PMB + Qns
		Total	Average		Total	Average	Total	Average
Shiv Sena	18	842	49.5	74	10488	616.9	11404	670.8
Nationalist Congress Party	7	224	32.0	22	3597	513.9	3843	549.0
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	9	854	94.9	23	3137	348.6	4014	446.0
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	37	1471	39.8	0	14982	404.9	16453	444.7
Indian National Congress	49	1984	40.5	119	12624	257.6	14727	300.6
Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party	9	379	42.1	2	2219	246.6	2600	288.9
Telugu Desam Party	16	511	34.1	14	3744	249.6	4269	284.6
Bharatiya Janata Party	287	9133	34.6	567	59535	225.5	69235	262.3
Telangana Rashtra Samithi	12	445	37.1	30	2539	211.6	3014	251.2
Biju Janata Dal	21	908	43.2	63	4027	191.8	4998	238.0
Rashtriya Janata Dal	5	414	82.8	27	536	107.2	977	195.4
Samajwadi Party	7	116	16.6	1	1080	154.3	1197	171.0
Lok Jan Shakti Party	6	52	10.4	0	469	93.8	521	104.2
All India Trinamool Congress	38	817	21.5	8	2505	65.9	3330	87.6
National		20129	37.3	999	130598	241.8	151726	281.0

Source: PRS India

Only those political parties with more than 5 Members were considered for this analysis

PreSense congratulates all the top performers. 

We have already announced the Sansad Maha Ratna Guidelines for the 16^th Lok Sabha.  Please click the link.

http://www.sansadratna.in/2018/07/sansad-maha-ratna-awards-2019-guidelines.html

By K. Srinivasan, Publisher & Managing Editor 

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