A PRS Legislative Research note sets out how much time each Bill in the Monsoon Session 2026 got, and how little of the schedule Parliament used.
The Monsoon Session 2026 ran from 20 July to 13 August. Both Houses met for 19 days, and Parliament passed eleven Bills. In the Lok Sabha, nine of those eleven cleared the House without any MP speaking on them, apart from the minister.
How Much of the Session Actually Ran
PRS Legislative Research tracks parliamentary functioning. It recorded that the Lok Sabha worked for 15 percent of its scheduled time, and the Rajya Sabha for 33 percent. PRS describes a session marked by repeated disruptions.
Its note records that the Lok Sabha functioned on the afternoon of 28 July, then until 2 pm the next day, when it passed the Public Examinations Bill. On other days it met for a few minutes before adjourning.
One Bill Took Eleven Hours, Another Took Two Minutes
The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill was the exception. The Lok Sabha spent 10 hours and 54 minutes on it, and 48 MPs took part. In the Rajya Sabha, 35 MPs debated it for 6 hours and 39 minutes.
Every other Bill moved quickly. The Bill amending the Registration of Births and Deaths Act cleared the Lok Sabha in two minutes. The Taxation Amendment Bill and the MSME Development Amendment Bill took three minutes each. Renaming Kerala as Keralam took five.
The Rajya Sabha discussed more of them, though briefly. Sixteen MPs spoke on the births and deaths Bill there, across 50 minutes.
Question Hour in the Monsoon Session 2026 Lasted Nine Minutes
Question Hour is when MPs put questions to ministers and press them with follow-ups. It functioned for 1 percent of its scheduled time in the Lok Sabha, and 12 percent in the Rajya Sabha.
So in the Lok Sabha it ran for nine minutes across the whole session, and ministers answered two questions orally. Parliament took up no debates, discussions or private members’ business.
The Stage the Bills Skipped
Every Bill that passed in the session had also entered it in the same session. None went to a standing committee, where members normally examine a Bill clause by clause and hear outside views.
One Bill, the Foreign Contribution Regulation Amendment Bill, went to a Joint Parliamentary Committee. That takes the share of Bills sent to committees in this Lok Sabha to 21 percent, against 16 percent in the last one and 28 percent before that.
The Wise Take
A Bill becomes law whether the House debates it for eleven hours or two minutes. What differs is how much examination it went through first. Committee scrutiny, floor debate and Question Hour are the three places where that happens, and this session used all three lightly. PRS also notes that the Lok Sabha has had no Deputy Speaker for seven years, though the Constitution requires the post. One session’s figures are not a verdict. Placed beside the last three years, though, they describe a pattern.
