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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) said that the attendance of Members of Parliament volition present beryllium recorded lone erstwhile they are physically contiguous wrong the House astatine their designated seats. The caller attendance regularisation volition travel into effect from the upcoming Budget Session.
Mr. Birla announced the determination during an enactment with media persons connected the sidelines of the 86th All India Presiding Officers’ Conference, saying the determination would heighten accountability and transparency. Under the earlier provision, members were allowed to people their attendance from extracurricular the House enclosure wrong the Parliament premises.
The Lok Sabha Speaker said attendance would present beryllium recorded lone erstwhile members are seated wrong the House, a determination that would promote them to beryllium contiguous from the commencement of proceedings each day.
Mr. Birla praised the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, describing it arsenic a “symbol of vibrant democracy,” and credited Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana for adopting bully practices successful the country’s largest Legislative Assembly. “This Assembly organised abstracted sessions for women and younker to summation women’s information successful authorities and to animate women successful each states,” the Lok Sabha Speaker said.
