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- The government has declined, under an RTI reply, to disclose how much it costs to run Parliament sessions or what taxpayers lose when sittings are disrupted, telling Mint the information sought does not fall under Section 2(f) of the RTI Act.
- The query, filed on August 13 with the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, came after a disruptive Monsoon Session 2026 in which Lok Sabha productivity was 19% and Rajya Sabha 39%.
- The widely cited figure of ₹2.5 lakh per minute of Parliament time has no official source; a 2008 Lok Sabha paper had estimated ₹29,000 per minute.
- A reply from the Lok Sabha Secretariat is still awaited.
What to watch next
- The pending response from the Lok Sabha Secretariat to the same RTI query
- Whether Mint appeals or challenges the Rajya Sabha Secretariat's refusal under Section 2(f)
- Any official disclosure or clarification on how parliamentary costs are actually calculated
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