Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has said that there is a great expansion in the role and responsibilities of the modern-day legislators since they have to attend the developmental needs of their constituency as well as legislative duties. <br/><br/>She remarked, it is imperative to support them by a well-organized and trained research and information service as they come from diverse backgrounds and the complexity of issues before them are varied. <br/><br/>Ms Mahajan was delivering a keynote address on Strengthening Parliamentary Research for the effective functioning of Legislatures" at the 24th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth in Victoria, Seychelles today.<br/><br/>She said a professionally organized Parliamentary research service is expected to provide verifiable information, comparative data and analytical inputs covering the entire spectrum of perspective to be dealt by the members. <br/><br/>Ms Mahajan stressed that the need for a strong Parliamentary research service is greater in the developing democracies to understand the complexities of the issues before the nations.