Eight Delhi MLAs didn’t raise any issue in Assembly in a year: Report

The ‘Delhi MLA Report Card 2024’ by the NGO said the survey besides evaluated the consolidated show of MLAs who served a minimum of 3 years successful the Assembly arsenic good arsenic the wide productivity of the 7th Delhi Assembly, peculiarly examining the fig of moving days.

“Consolidated show of MLAs successful the 7th Assembly, however, presents a concerning picture. Compared to the 6th Assembly, the mean people of the 70 MLAs has been connected a downward inclination implicit the years. In 2022, the mean people was 51.30%, which decreased to 50.90% successful 2023 and further dropped to 49.29% successful 2024,” said Milind Mhaske, CEO of Praja Foundation.

However, the mean people of the apical five-ranked MLAs has improved, said Pooja Verma, subordinate manager of the NGO. “In the 7th Assembly, their mean people was 76.20%, an summation from the 6th Assembly’s mean of 70.30%.”

She said that successful contrast, the show of the bottommost five-ranked MLAs has drastically declined. “In the 6th Assembly, the mean people of the bottommost 5 was 39.63%, portion successful the seventh Assembly, it plummeted to a specified 19.01% — a simplification of much than 50%. This alarming diminution indicates these MLAs are not adequately fulfilling their responsibilities arsenic representatives of the people,” she said.

Verma further said it is an encouraging inclination that from 2021, the fig of issues raised by MLAs steadily increased. While successful 2021 (March 8 to November 26), MLAs posed 521 issues; the fig was 872 successful 2022 (January 3 to September 1) and 1,147 (January 16 to December 15) successful 2023.

“There has been a accordant emergence successful the fig of inquiries related to captious issues specified arsenic crime, education, and transport… But the fig of health-related questions has declined. In 2022, 74 issues were raised concerning health, but this decreased to 56 successful 2023… The astir troubling inclination is observed successful the country of storm-water drainage, wherever the fig of issues raised fell from 31 successful 2021 to 26 successful 2022, and past to conscionable six successful 2023,” Verma said.