Press Release: Analysis of Performance of MLAs 7th Legislative Assembly of Goa (2017 - 2021)

[ADR India]

Press Release

Date: November 15, 2021

Dear Friends,

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Goa Election Watch (GEW) had filed RTIs to the Goa Assembly Secretariat asking for the information pertaining to the performance of the MLAs and the Legislative Assembly. This report has been generated from the information received up to March 2021. Whereas from 2017 to 2020 the report covers the complete calendar years, for the year 2021 the report covers data available from January to March 2021.

There are 40 seats in Goa Assembly, however this report also includes the analysis for the MLAs who have resigned or got elected through bye-elections.

For the complete report in English and Hindi, please see: https://adrindia.org/content/7th-legislative-assembly-goa-2017-2021-analysis-performance-mlas

Summary and Highlights

Analysis of Number of Sittings in Each Session of Goa Legislative Assembly

• On an average, Goa State Assembly sat for 16 days per year.
• The longest session was the 10^th session, from 15^th July, 2019 to 9 August, 2019. It had 20 sittings.  

Figure: No. of sittings held in Goa Assembly during the period 2017-2021

• The highest number of hours contributed for assembly sittings were 154.01 hours in 2017 where assembly had 24 sittings.

• The lowest number of hours contributed for assembly sittings were 35.54 hours in 2020 where assembly had 7 sittings.

Figure: Year Wise Total Time Contributed for Assembly Sessions (in Hours)

Analysis of Attendance MLAs in Goa Legislative Assembly

• The details of MLAs with highest attendance are given below:

S.No.	MLA Name	Constituency	Party	Total Number of Days	Number of days Attended	Percentage of Attendance
1	Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco	CURTORIM	INC	80	80	100%
2	Alina Saldanha	CORTALIM	BJP	80	80	100%
3	Antonio Caetano Fernandes	ST. CRUZ	INC	80	80	100%
4	Francisco Silveira	ST. ANDRE	INC	80	80	100%
5	Glenn John Vijay Ambrose E. Souza Ticlo	ALDONA	BJP	80	80	100%
6	Jose Luis Carlos Almeida	VASCO-DA-GAMA	BJP	80	80	100%
7	Luizinho Faleiro	NAVELIM	INC	80	80	100%
8	Nilkanth Ramnath Halarnkar	TIVIM	INC	80	80	100%
9	Prasad S. Gaonkar	SANGUEM	IND	80	80	100%
10	Ravi Sitaram Naik	PONDA	INC	80	80	100%
11	Wilfred Nazareth Menino Dsa	NUVEM	INC	80	80	100%

Table: MLAs with highest attendance

Figure: Party Wise Average Attendance

* Including MLAs resigned / elected through Bye –Elections

Analysis of Number of Questions asked by MLAs in Goa Legislative Assembly

• Only 36 MLAs have asked questions. These MLAs asked a total of 9,442 questions.

• The details of top 5 MLAs who have asked the highest number of questions are given below.

S.No.	MLA Name	Constituency	Party	Number of Questions Asked
1	Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco	CURTORIM	INC	1202
2	Digambar Vasant Kamat	MARGAO	INC	1137
3	Wilfred Nazareth Menino Dsa	NUVEM	INC	595
4	Chandrakant Kavlekar	QUEPEM	BJP	576
5	Ravi Sitaram Naik	PONDA	INC	560

Table: Top 5 MLAs who have asked maximum number of questions

Figure: Party Wise Average Number of Questions Asked 

* Including MLAs resigned / elected through Bye –Elections

•  Highest number of Questions were related to Water, Panchayat and Rural Development and School and Education.

Figure: Top 12 - Category Wise Questions Asked

 

Analysis of Bills Tabled and Bills Passed in Goa Legislative Assembly

• There were a total of 93 Bills tabled in the 7^th Goa Assembly and all of them were passed.

Figure: Time taken to Pass a Bill in 7^th Goa Assembly

Contact Details

 

Goa Election Watch

Mr. Bhasker Assoldekar               +91-98203-53159        vibhan...@hotmail.com

  

National Election Watch/Association for Democratic Reforms

 

Media and Journalist Helpline   +91 80103 94248 Email: a...@adrindia.org

Maj.Gen. Anil Verma (Retd) Head National Election Watch, Association for Democratic Reforms 011 4165 4200, +91 88264 79910 a...@adrIndia.org, anil...@adrindia.org

Prof Jagdeep Chhokar IIM Ahmedabad (Retd.) Founder Member, National Election Watch, Association for Democratic Reforms +91 99996 20944 jchh...@gmail.com

Prof Trilochan Sastry IIM Bangalore Founder Member, National Election Watch, Association for Democratic Reforms +91 94483 53285 tsa...@gmail.com

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