New Delhi, Aug 26 - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Wednesday expressed her concern over repeated disruptions in the house and said parliament should sit for a minimum 100 days a year.
'I really want the parliament to have 100 sitting days a year. We should also make full use of the parliament time. The most important thing is that the question hour should be sacrosanct and should never be suspended,' Meira Kumar, India's first woman speaker, said.
'During the parliament session, I was very concerned about the question hour as it is the time when the government is accountable to the parliament and there is so much of information that becomes public,' she said during an interaction with women journalists here.
Emphasising that more questions should be answered during the question hour, the speaker said: 'As of now, on an average 3.34 questions of 10 listed gets answered during the question hour. I would like it to go up to six or seven per day.'
Her remarks come against the backdrop of criticism on the decreasing working hours of the parliament.