Overview of 40^th Session of The National Assembly

The 15th National Assembly met for 23 hours and 38 minutes in 40th Session with an average time of 2 hours and 37 minutes per sitting. All 9 sittings started late on an average of 38 minutes per sitting.

The 40th session of the National Assembly began on Monday, January 10 at the start of the working week, but the House was called to meet at 4 pm, towards the end of normal working day. The first sitting, however, could only begin with a delay of 1 hour and 35 minutes and lasted only for 2 hours and 43 minutes before it was adjourned. The next sitting held on Tuesday, January 11 was again called at 4 pm and started with a delay of 27 minutes and lasted for 4 hours and 15 minutes. The sitting held on Wednesday, January 12 was called at 11 am though it started with a delay of 29 minutes and lasted for 5 hours and 3 minutes. The sitting held on Thursday, January 13 was again called towards the end of normal working day at 4 pm and started with a delay of 50 minutes and lasted 6 hours and 40 minutes as the longest sitting of the session. On Friday, January 14, the house was called to meet at 11 am though it started with a delay of 39 minutes and lasted for 56 minutes only. No sitting was held over the Saturday and Sunday weekend. On Monday, January 17, the House was called to convene at 4pm, towards the end of normal working day and started after a delay of 14 minutes though it was adjourned only after 16 minutes. The next sitting was called on Tuesday, January 18, again at 4pm and started after a delay of 36 minutes and lasted for 1 hour and 47 minutes. On Wednesday, January 19, the House was called to meet at 4 pm though the sitting started with a delay of 53 minutes and lasted only for 16 minutes. No sitting was held on Thursday, January 20. The next sitting was called at 10:30 am on Friday, January 21 and started with a delay of 2 minutes and the session was prorogued after a sitting of 1 hour and 42 minutes.