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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will address members of the Goa Legislative Assembly on Thursday on the theme of 'Viksit Bharat 2047: Role of Elected Representatives'. A statement from the Lok Sabha Secretariat said the Speaker's address will be at the Goa Legislative Assembly chamber in the presence of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Assembly Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar. Also Read | Birla will also call on Goa Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai, it said. The Lok Sabha Speaker will visit the Shree Balram Residential School in Canacona to participate in a book release function and hand over keys of houses built by the Shree Balram Charitable Trust to its beneficiaries. On Friday, Birla will inaugurate the First National Legislators Conference in Mumbai. Aimed at strengthening democracy, the three-day conference will feature parallel panel discussions covering 10 key themes, including technology-driven economic growth, international legislative practices, and collaborative efforts between bureaucrats and legislators for social progress.

New Delhi, Jun 10 (PTI) When India adopted parliamentary democracy post independence many countries doubted the country’s potential, but today it is showing the mirror to the world, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said. Presenting Lions Club International’s ‘Roar to Restore’ SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) awards to 20 individuals and organisations here on Friday, Birla also said India will lead the world in every field in the coming days. “The coming time belongs to India, whether it is economic, social, political or democratic. There is a discussion of India’s SDG everywhere. We had a long discussion on the platform of Parliament to achieve the goals of SDGs and how can we contribute to achieving the SDG goal,” he said. Lions Club International said in a statement that these awards seek to acknowledge and recognise the efforts and contributions of those who made a difference by their efforts and contributions, flipping the script on climate change, gender balance and women empowerment, health and wellness and laying the foundations for a more sustainable and equitable future for all. “When India adopted parliamentary democracy after independence, many countries felt that with such a large population and geography, the country with this situation may not be able to do anything but today India is showing the mirror to the world,” Birla said at the event. “Our strength has increased due to the new thinking of the youth. Today the youth is doing exceptionally well in ever...

Now that elections are over and speculation about who will get which ministry is going around, there’s one question that still remains – What will the seating arrangement for the 17th Lok Sabha look like? Which party will get the front seats and who will come to occupy them? The answer to these questions lies in detailed procedures , which lay down rules for assigning seats in the lower house. The present strength of the Lok Sabha stands at 543, and the entire country is divided into the same number of constituencies. During general elections, voters from each of these constituencies elect one person who represents that seat in the Lok Sabha. However, the ‘house of the people’ can accommodate upto 550 people. The Lok Sabha has 22 front seats, spread across six blocs. While the opposition sits to the right of the Speaker, the Prime Minister, his colleagues in the government and other party or coalition MPs occupy seats located to the left of the Speaker’s chair. Traditionally, the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha is seated in the first row, to the left of the Speaker. Usually, the Deputy Speaker shares the front row with the Leader of the Opposition. Seated in the front row of the bloc right opposite that of the Leader of Opposition, is the Prime Minister and his senior cabinet colleagues. Under rule 4 of the Rules of Procedure and conduct of business, “members shall sit in such order as the Speaker may determine.” In exercising his powers over seat allocation, the Speaker i...

By India Today Web Desk: President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday, sworn in seven-term member of Parliament Virendra Kumar as the pro-tem speaker of Lok Sabha. Pro-tem speaker is the temporary speaker who presides over the first meeting of lower House of Parliament after the general elections besides presiding over the sitting in which the Speaker and Deputy Speaker are elected if it is a newly constituted House. Kumar will oversee the oath-taking of newly elected Lok Sabha members on Monday and Tuesday. As a pro-tem speaker, Kumar will preside over the first sitting of the Lok Sabha and administer the oath to the newly elected MPs. He will also oversee the election of the Lok Sabha speaker. Here is all you need to know about the post of pro-tem speaker: Meaning of pro-tem speaker Pro-tem is a Latin phrase which translates to 'for the time being' in English and so the pro-tem speaker is a temporary speaker appointed for a limited period of time to conduct the works in Lok Sabha or in state legislatures. Pro-tem speaker is chosen for the conduct of the house when the Lok Sabha and legislative assemblies have been elected and the vote for the speaker and deputy speaker has not taken place. Who selects the pro-tem speaker? A pro-tem speaker is chosen with the agreement of the members of the Lok Sabha and legislative assembly. Usually, the senior-most member of the house is selected for the post, who then carries on the activities until the permanent speaker is chosen. Duties of th...

Meira Kumar, (born March 31, 1945, Kumar was born into a political family of Dalit (formerly In 1973 Kumar entered the Indian Foreign Service, where she served for more than a decade. After postings to Being close to the politically powerful Gandhi family and representing the lower castes, Kumar’s political career progressed steadily within the Kumar won reelection to the Lok Sabha in 1996 and 1998 from a Kumar lost her bid to retain her seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, one of the many Congress Party members who were ousted from the chamber in the BJP landslide victory. She left the speaker’s post in early June, following the expiration of her term. In the 2017 presidential election she was the UPA’s candidate, but she was easily defeated by