PILDAT assessment: KP assembly outperforms other assemblies in passage of legislation

LAHORE: Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has outranked other provincial assemblies in passage of most legislations at the end of 2nd Parliamentary Year, said a PILDAT comparative assessment of performance of Pakistan's four Provincial Assemblies.

It said the KP Assembly has passed 59 laws in second year, followed by Provincial Assembly of the Punjab which passed 41 laws. Provincial Assembly of Sindh has passed 24 laws while Provincial Assembly of Balochistan lags behind the other three by having passed only 8 laws during second year. Comparative analysis on passage of laws as seen in each provincial assembly shows that except Balochistan Assembly, which has passed fewer bills than first year, there is an increase in legislative activity across other three assemblies.

According to the study, when looking at total number of laws passed by each Assembly during the two parliamentary years that concluded in August 2020, KP Assembly also leads ahead of other Assemblies by 89 total laws passed in two years; followed by Punjab Assembly that has passed a total of 58 laws in two years. Sindh Assembly has passed a total of 36 laws while Balochistan Assembly has only passed 19 laws in total in two parliamentary years.

Comparative analysis on legislative activity contrasts sharply with budget allocation to each Assembly per member during the year. Balochistan, which has passed the lowest number of laws in two years has the highest budget allocation per member at about 23.1 million PKR.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020