Lok Sabha Secretariat

July 5, 2026 2:09 PM

LS Speaker Om Birla urges constructive debate in legislatures, says leadership is built on ideas, not disruptions

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday called for meaningful democratic dialogue and constructive legislative functioning, asserting that leadership is built through facts, reason and ideas rather than sloganeering, disruptions or legislative deadlocks. Addressing the valedictory session of a two-day Orientation Programme for Members of the 18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly, LS Speaker Birla said legislatures must remain forums for discussion, deliberation and solutions, where debates contr...

February 23, 2026 4:45 PM

Lok Sabha Speaker OM Birla forms Parliamentary Friendship Groups with over 60 nations to strengthen global democratic engagement

In a major push to expand India’s parliamentary diplomacy, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has constituted Parliamentary Friendship Groups with over 60 countries, aiming to deepen engagement between India’s legislature and parliaments across the world. The initiative seeks to complement traditional diplomacy with sustained Parliament-to-Parliament dialogue, enabling lawmakers to directly interact with their counterparts abroad. The Friendship Groups will facilitate exchanges on legislative pract...

March 19, 2025 11:15 AM

Sansad Bhashini initiative to revolutionize parliamentary documentation and accessibility through AI and real-time translations

In a major step toward modernizing parliamentary processes, the Lok Sabha Secretariat and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop the Sansad Bhashini initiative on Tuesday. This ambitious project aims to leverage cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance multilingual support, streamline parliamentary operations, and improve access to vast archives of parliamentary debates and records, according to an official...

February 3, 2025 9:53 AM

Parliamentary Session: JPC report on Waqf Amendment Bill to be tabled in Lok Sabha

The report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) which examined the Waqf (Amendment) Bill will be tabled in the Lok Sabha. According to a bulletin issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, Committee Chairman Jagdambika Pal and member Sanjay Jaiswal will table the report in the House. The committee had already submitted the report to the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday. The Waqf Amendment Bill aims to overhaul the Waqf Act of 1995, which regulates the management of Waqf properties in Indi...