 bill no 17 of 2010 the  constitution (amendment) bill, 2010 byshri arjun meghwal, mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-first year of the republic of india as follows:—"provided that the number of sittings of each house of parliament in all sessions in a calendar year shall not be less than one hundred and twenty days" statement  of  objects  and  reasonsover the years, it has been observed that the number of sittings of the two houses of parliament are decreasing india is the largest democracy in the world and parliament is the only institution where problems of the people are raised and discussed thereby ensuring accountability of the government to the people if the trend of curtailing the number of sittings of the two houses continues, it will have an adverse impact on the effectiveness of our democracyafter independence, during the initial years, parliament used to meet for an average of one hundred and twenty days in a calendar year thereafter, it came down to one hundred days a year, and at present, the number of sittings is less than even one hundred the representatives of the people in the parliament raise the issues of public concern through various devices available to them, but all the issues are not taken up for discussion due to shortage of time in a way, it is resulting in denial of opportunities to members to raise the issues of public importance and participate in the discussionsthus, in order to uphold our democratic values and to ensure effective representation and redressal of the problems of the people, it is necessary that a reasonable minimum number of sittings of both the houses are fixed taking into account all these facts, it is proposed to amend the constitution to ensure that the parliament sits for at least one hundred and twenty days in a calendar yearhence this billfebruary 11, 2010 annexure extract from the constitution of india      85 (1) the president shall from time to time summon each house of parliament to meet at such time and place as he thinks fit, but six months shall not intervene between its last sitting in one session and the date appointed for its first sitting in the next sessionsessions of parliament, prorogation and dissolution(2) the president from time to time—(a) prorogue the houses or either house; (b) dissolve the house of people      ———— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri arjun meghwal, mp)gmgipmrnd—718ls(s-5)—26022010