Month-long Winter Session to commence on November 24

Winter session of Parliament will start from November 24 and concludes on December 23 with a total of 22 sittings. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday recommended the dates to the President.

The month-long session will have a heavy legislative agenda is on the cards. A total of 67 bills of which 59 in Rajya Sabha and eight in Lok Sabha are pending and the government will push for passage of at least 30 to 35 legislations, a senior minister said.

This will be the second major session since the Narendra Modi Government took over in May. The long wait for finalisation of seating arrangement in Lok Sabha is expected to be over before the session commences, almost six months after the constitution of the new House.

Average number of sittings in the past five Winter sessions has been 22 and the dates were decided based on precedents.