solman Posted July 24, 2014 Report Posted July 24, 2014 Data released by the Rajya Sabha shows that nominated members like Sachin Tendulkar and actress Rekha rarely attend the proceedings. Tendulkar and Rekha attended two and three sessions, respectively, between 2013 and 2014. We looked at the data of sessions 229 (convened between August 5, 2013 and September 7, 2013), 230-I (05-12-2013 to 18-12-2013), 230-II (05-2-2014 to 21-2-2014), 231 (9-06-2014 to 11-06-2014) and 232 (07-07-2014 to 14-08-2014). During these sessions, the Rajya sabha met 73 times. Twelve seats in the Rajya Sabha are allocated to nominated MPs. These members are nominated by the President of India from among people who have special knowledge or experience in areas like literature, science, art and social service. The list this year included former minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, Tendulkar, Rekha and poet Javed Akhtar.
solman Posted July 24, 2014 Author Report Posted July 24, 2014 How many sessions did these RS MPs attend? The Charts below show the number of sittings each of the nominated RS numbers attended out of a total of 73 Mrinal Miri 13 K T S Tulsi 3 Rekha 2 Sachin Tendulkar 30 Ashok S Ganguly 27 B Jayashree 22 Javed Akhtar 47 K Parasaran 45 Mani Shankar Aiyar 36 Anu Aga 55 H K Dua 36 Dr Bhalchandra Mungekar 22 Mrinal Miri
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